Harmonic Skeleton Guided Evaluation of Stenoses in Human Coronary Arteries

This paper presents a novel approach that three-dimensionally visualizes and evaluates stenoses in human coronary arteries by using harmonic skeletons. A harmonic skeleton is the center line of a multi-branched tubular surface extracted based on a harmonic function, which is the solution of the Laplace equation. This skeletonization method guarantees smoothness and connectivity and provides a fast and straightforward way to calculate local cross-sectional areas of the arteries, and thus provides the possibility to localize and evaluate coronary artery stenosis, which is a commonly seen pathology in coronary artery disease.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: MICCAI
• Authors: Yan Yang, Lei Zhu, Steven Haker, Allen Tannenbaum, Don P. Giddens
• Keywords: Coronary Artery Disease, Coronary Artery Stenosis, Human Coronary Arteries, Medical Imaging, MICCAI 2005