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CMB is a member of the Cardiovascular Regeneration Project

Ex-vivo Detection of Atherosclerotic Plaque in Coronary Arteries


Collaboration : Texas Heart Institute / S. Ward Casscells, S. David Gertz, D. Vela, et. al.
Center for Mathematical Biosciences / Simon Alexander, Bernhard Bodmann, Manos Papadakis.
Data : 3D volumes captured by micro-CT
Goal : Reconstruction of images with normal tissue visibly separated from abnormal tissue
Challenge : Subtle differences in tissue textures.
Mathematics : Isotropic Multi-Resolution Analysis (IMRA), image segmentation.

 

 
Raw Data
 
Histology (truth)
 
 
Reconstructed Volume
 
Segmented Volume

 

Volume Segmentation