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18450537

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-5-2
pubmed:abstractText
Despite recovering a normal coronary flow after acute myocardial infarction, percutaneous coronary intervention does not guarantee a proper perfusion (irrigation) of the infarcted area. This damage in microcirculation integrity may detrimentally affect the patient survival. Visual assessment of the myocardium opacification in contrast angiography serves to define a subjective score of the microcirculation integrity myocardial blush analysis (MBA). Although MBA correlates with patient prognosis its visual assessment is a very difficult task that requires of a highly expertise training in order to achieve a good intraobserver and interobserver agreement. In this paper, we provide objective descriptors of the myocardium staining pattern by analyzing the spectrum of the image local statistics. The descriptors proposed discriminate among the different phenomena observed in the angiographic sequence and allow defining an objective score of the myocardial perfusion.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1558-0062
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
27
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
641-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Myocardial perfusion characterization from contrast angiography spectral distribution.
pubmed:affiliation
Computer Vision Center, Edifici O, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain. debora@cvc.uab.es
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't