Intravascular Ultrasound

Dr. Simone Balocco is Associate Professor of the University of Barcelona, Departement of Mathematics and Informatics, and is senior researcher at the Computer Vision Center, Bellaterra. He obtained a PhD degree in Acoustics at the laboratory Creatis, Lyon and in Electronic and Telecommunication in MSD Lab, University of Florence (Italy). He performed a post-doc at the laboratory CISTIB, at the University Pompeu Fabra. Dr. Balocco main research interest are pattern recognition and computer vision methods for the computer-aided detection of clinical pathologies. In particular his research focuses on Ultrasound and Magnetic Imaging applications and vascular modelling.

• 1. IntroductionSECTION I: CLINICAL IVUS2. Clinical Utility of Intravascular Ultrasound3. Convenience of Intravascular Ultrasound in Coronary Chronic Total Occlusion Recanalization4. Intracardiac Ultrasound5. Quantitative Virtual Histology for In Vivo Evaluation of Human Atherosclerosis— A Plaque Biomechanics-Based Novel Image Analysis Algorithm: Validation and Applications to Atherosclerosis ResearchSECTION II: IVUS IMAGE ANALYSIS6. A State-of-the-Art Intravascular Ultrasound Diagnostic System7. Multimodality Intravascular Imaging Technology8. Quantitative Assessment and Prediction of Coronary Plaque Development Using Serial Intravascular Ultrasound and Virtual Histology9. Training Convolutional Nets to Detect Calcified Plaque in IVUS Sequences10. Computer-Aided Detection of Intracoronary Stent Location and Extension in Intravascular Ultrasound Sequences11. Real-Time Robust Simultaneous Catheter and Environment Modeling for Endovascular Navigation