@inproceedings{f3ba3454d70f44b1872bf8c047fffcd3,
title = "Automated Quantification of Blood Flow Velocity from Time-Resolved CT Angiography",
abstract = "Contrast-enhanced computed tomography angiography (CE-CTA) provides valuable, non-invasive assessment of lower extremity peripheral arterial disease (PAD). The advent of wide beam CT scanners has enabled multiple CT acquisitions over the same structure at a high frame rate, facilitating time-resolved CTA acquisitions. In this study, we investigate the technical feasibility of automatically quantifying the bolus arrival time and blood velocity in the arteries below the knee from time-resolved CTA. Our approach is based on arterial segmentation and local estimation of the bolus arrival time. The results are compared to values obtained through manual reading of the datasets and show good agreement. Based on a small patient study, we explore initial utility of these quantitative measures for the diagnosis of lower extremity PAD. ",
keywords = "Artery segmentation, Blood velocity, Lower extremities, Peripheral arterial disease, Time-resolved CTA",
author = "Pieter Boonen and Nico Buls and {Van Gompel}, Gert and {De Brucker}, Yannick and Dimitri Aerden and {De Mey}, Johan and Jef Vandemeulebroucke",
year = "2018",
month = oct,
day = "17",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-01364-6_2",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-030-01363-9",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer International Publishing AG",
pages = "11--18",
editor = "Su-Lin Lee and Emanuele Trucco and Lena Maier-Hein and Stefano Moriconi and Shadi Albarqouni and Pierre Jannin and Simone Balocco and Guillaume Zahnd and Diana Mateus and Zeike Taylor and Stefanie Demirci and Danail Stoyanov and Raphael Sznitman and Anne Martel and Veronika Cheplygina and Eric Granger and Luc Duong",
booktitle = "Intravascular Imaging and Computer Assisted Stenting and Large-Scale Annotation of Biomedical Data and Expert Label Synthesis - 7th Joint International Workshop, CVII-STENT 2018 and Third International Workshop, LABELS 2018 Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2018",
address = "Switzerland",
note = "Joint MICCAI-Workshop on Computing and Visualisation for Intravascular Imaging and Computer Assisted Stenting : CVII-STENT ; Conference date: 16-09-2018 Through 20-09-2018",
}