Jose M de la Torre Hernandez, MD, PhD, FESC, is an interventional cardiologist, head of the CV interventional dpt. in the Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, in Santander, Spain. He is member of the scientific committee of the Spanish Society of Cardiology and is fellow of the European Society of Cardiology. Associate director of the Trans Catheter Therapeutics Meeting in US. Faculty of ESC, PCR, ACC and TCT meetings. Coordinator of the ESTROFA, XIMA and LITRO study groups. He is currently visiting scientist at Harvard-MIT biomedical engineering center. His research interests include intravascular imaging, coronary artery disease and drug eluting stents.
Real time segmentation and three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of the coronary arteries is challenging and limited by the increased computational time of the developed computer-aided methods. We present a novel and time-efficient method for intracoronary lumen detection which produces 3D coronary...
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