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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090731
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Automated Quantification of Non-Calcified Coronary Plaques in Cardiac CT Angiographic Imagery

Author 1: M Moazzam Jawaid
Author 2: Sanam Narejo
Author 3: Nasrullah Pirzada
Author 4: Junaid Baloch
Author 5: C.C. Reyes-Aldasoro
Author 6: Greg Slabaugh

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 9 Issue 7, 2018.

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Abstract: The high mortality rate associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) has driven intensive research in cardiac image analysis. The advent of computed tomography angiogra-phy (CTA) has turned non-invasive diagnosis of cardiovascular anomalies into reality as calcified coronary plaques can be easily identified due to high intensity values. However, detection and quantification of the non-calcified plaques in CTA is still a challenging problem because of their lower intensity values, which are often similar to the nearby blood and muscle tissues. In this work, we propose Bayesian posterior based model for precise quantification of the non-calcified plaques in CTA imagery. The only indicator of non-calcified plaques in CTA is relatively lower intensity. Hence, we exploited intensity variations to discriminate voxels into lumen and plaque classes. Based on the normal coronary segments, we computed the vessel-wall thickness in first step. In the subsequent step, we removed vessel wall from the seg-mented tree and employed Gaussian Mixture Model to compute optimal distribution parameters. In the final step, distribution parameters were employed in Bayesian posterior model to classify voxels into lumen or plaque. A total of 18 CTA volumes were analyzed in this work using two different approaches. According to the experimental results, mean Jaccard overlap is around 88% with respect to the manual expert. In terms of sensitivity, specificity and accuracy, the proposed method achieves 84.13% ,79.15% and 82.02% success, respectively. Conclusion: According to the experimental results, it is shown that the proposed plaque quantification method achieves accuracy equivalent to human experts.

Keywords: Coronary segmentation; non-calcified plaques; vas-cular quantification; coronary wall analysis

M Moazzam Jawaid, Sanam Narejo, Nasrullah Pirzada, Junaid Baloch, C.C. Reyes-Aldasoro and Greg Slabaugh, “Automated Quantification of Non-Calcified Coronary Plaques in Cardiac CT Angiographic Imagery” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 9(7), 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090731

@article{Jawaid2018,
title = {Automated Quantification of Non-Calcified Coronary Plaques in Cardiac CT Angiographic Imagery},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090731},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090731},
year = {2018},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {9},
number = {7},
author = {M Moazzam Jawaid and Sanam Narejo and Nasrullah Pirzada and Junaid Baloch and C.C. Reyes-Aldasoro and Greg Slabaugh}
}



Copyright Statement: This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, even commercially as long as the original work is properly cited.

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