The distensibility of a blood vessel is a marker of atherosclerotic disease. Manual measurement of the distensibility on CTA images is a difficult task. In this paper we describe a method to automatically determine the distensibility of the carotid artery by locally analyzing the deformation field of a nonrigid registration of a series of ECGgated CTA images. We evaluate two variants of the method, and compare the results with manually measured distensibilities.

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doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2010.5490427, hdl.handle.net/1765/83728
7th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2010
Department of Radiology

Hameeteman, K., Rozie, S., Metz, C., Klein, S., van Walsum, T., van der Lugt, A., & Niessen, W. (2010). Automated carotid artery distensibility measurements from CTA using nonrigid registration. Presented at the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2010. doi:10.1109/ISBI.2010.5490427