Development of an image processing system to detect automatically intmal and adventitial contours from intravascular ultrasound images

관상 동맥 초음파 영상에서 내벽 및 외벽 자동 추출을 위한 영상처리 알고리즘 개발

A new computation algorithm to detect the intimal and adventitial contours from the intravascular images was developed. An image processing on gray level image was used. It uses arrays of pixels in each radial lines on the images. A Low-Pass filters was adopted at first step for one dimensional image processing. Some other calculations techniques were developed to increase the accuracy of automatically detected contours. The program implemented in C++ as a window95-base application.