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2008 10th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing
Automatic Assessment of Cardiac Artery Disease by Using DCAD Module
Timisoara, Romania
September 26-September 29
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3523-4
In patients with cardiac artery disease myocardial perfusion scan, which is a non-invasive method, is utilized. This study is conducted to achieve an advantageous software applicable to quantitative myocardial SPECT perfusion. Each cross-section of the left ventricle is segmented by applying fuzzy clustering method. After obtaining the myocardial skeleton of the left ventricle from its short axis cross sections, we make use of fuzzy logic to decide whether the pixel belongs to myocardial muscle and any perfusion perturbation or not. Abnormal critical conditions in rest and stress studies and coronary artery disease diagnosis were investigated in a set of about 200 images. Measurement and allocation of different myocardial sectors to specific coronary arteries were accomplished by utilizing collected information about respectively 75 patient men and 62 patient women, and the validity of artery obstruction diagnosis has been proved in 40 patients having been under the coronary angiography. We named the achieved software DCAD(b) which has demonstrated a considerably good performance in coronary artery occlusion diagnosis and would be a promising method aiding nuclear medicine specialists in diagnosing these defections.
Index Terms:
Image Processing, Image Skeleton, Cardiac Artery Disease, SPECT
Citation:
Vahid Khalilzad-Sharghi, Alireza Talebpour, Alireza Kamali-Asl, Nastaran Hendijani, "Automatic Assessment of Cardiac Artery Disease by Using DCAD Module," synasc, pp.243-246, 2008 10th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, 2008
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