Artificial intelligence in symptomatic carotid plaque detection: a narrative review

G Miceli, G Rizzo, MG Basso, E Cocciola… - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Identifying atherosclerotic disease is the mainstay for the correct diagnosis of the large artery
atherosclerosis ischemic stroke subtype and for choosing the right therapeutic strategy in …

Carotid vessel wall segmentation through domain aligner, topological learning, and segment anything model for sparse annotation in mr images

X Li, X Ouyang, J Zhang, Z Ding… - … on Medical Imaging, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Medical image analysis poses significant challenges due to limited availability of clinical
data, which is crucial for training accurate models. This limitation is further compounded by …

[HTML][HTML] Nested star-shaped objects segmentation using diameter annotations

R Camarasa, H Kervadec, ME Kooi, J Hendrikse… - Medical image …, 2023 - Elsevier
Most current deep learning based approaches for image segmentation require annotations
of large datasets, which limits their application in clinical practice. We observe a mismatch …

Going off-grid: continuous implicit neural representations for 3D vascular modeling

D Alblas, C Brune, KK Yeung, JM Wolterink - International Workshop on …, 2022 - Springer
Personalised 3D vascular models are valuable for diagnosis, prognosis and treatment
planning in patients with cardiovascular disease. Traditionally, such models have been …

SIRE: scale-invariant, rotation-equivariant estimation of artery orientations using graph neural networks

D Alblas, J Suk, C Brune, KK Yeung… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Blood vessel orientation as visualized in 3D medical images is an important descriptor of its
geometry that can be used for centerline extraction and subsequent segmentation and …

Automatic Coronary Artery Plaque Quantification and CAD-RADS Prediction using Mesh Priors

RLM Van Herten, N Hampe, RAP Takx… - IEEE transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coronary artery disease (CAD) remains the leading cause of death worldwide. Patients with
suspected CAD undergo coronary CT angiography (CCTA) to evaluate the risk of …

VesselVAE: Recursive Variational Autoencoders for 3D Blood Vessel Synthesis

P Feldman, M Fainstein, V Siless, C Delrieux… - … Conference on Medical …, 2023 - Springer
We present a data-driven generative framework for synthesizing blood vessel 3D geometry.
This is a challenging task due to the complexity of vascular systems, which are highly …

UR-CarA-Net: a cascaded framework with uncertainty regularization for automated segmentation of carotid arteries on black blood MR images

E Lavrova, Z Salahuddin, HC Woodruff… - Ieee …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a fully automated method for carotid artery (CA) outer wall segmentation in black
blood MRI using partially annotated data and compare it to the state-of-the-art reference …

Physics-informed graph neural networks for flow field estimation in carotid arteries

J Suk, D Alblas, BA Hutten, A Wiegman… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Hemodynamic quantities are valuable biomedical risk factors for cardiovascular pathology
such as atherosclerosis. Non-invasive, in-vivo measurement of these quantities can only be …

Uncertainty-based quality assurance of carotid artery wall segmentation in black-blood MRI

E Thibeau-Sutre, D Alblas, S Buurman, C Brune… - … on Uncertainty for Safe …, 2023 - Springer
The application of deep learning models to large-scale data sets requires means for
automatic quality assurance. We have previously developed a fully automatic algorithm for …