Plaque classification using sparse features of IVUS RF signal for the diagnosis of arteriosclerosis

Authors:
Shota Furukawa;Eiji Uchino;Tadahiro Azetsu;Noriaki Suetake;Takafumi Hiro;Masunori Matsuzaki
Affiliations:
Yamaguchi University, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamaguchi, Japan;Yamaguchi University, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamaguchi, Japan and Fuzzy Logic Systems Institute, Iizuka, Japan;Yamaguchi Prefectural University, Yamaguchi, Japan;Yamaguchi University, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamaguchi, Japan;Nihon University, School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan;Yamaguchi University, Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Japan
Venue:
ACACOS'11 Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS international conference on Applied computer and applied computational science
Year:
2011

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Abstract

This paper proposes a tissue characterization method for coronary plaque by using a sparse coding. The sparse coding can efficiently represent a signal by a few basis functions extracted by learning. In the proposed method, the radio frequency (RF) signal obtained by the intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) method is expressed by a linear combination of the basis functions learned by the sparse coding, and the coefficient patterns of the basis functions are used for the tissue characterization. The effectiveness of the proposed method has been verified by comparing it with the conventional integrated backscatter (IB) analysis and frequency analysis.