@inproceedings{2c8ef5ae36f043f2a114d9d780c3bdc0,
title = "Bag of forests for modelling of tissue energy interaction in optical coherence tomography for atherosclerotic plaque susceptibility assessment",
abstract = "Atherosclerosis assessment using the high resolution of intravascular optical coherence tomography (IV-OCT) enables the visualisation of tissue pools which are susceptible to rupture. However, the stochastic nature of OCT speckles leads to subjectivity in interpretation. In this paper, we present a framework for to OCT tissue energy interaction driven marker for identifying susceptible pool of tissues. The local statistics of OCT speckles is coupled with estimate of optical attenuation and signal confidence measures in a multiscale approach. Further, a bag of random forests is trained on a bank of 22 OCT cross-sections where susceptible tissues have been identified by correlating with the histology. Evaluating the performance on 22 other diverse cross-sections substantiates robustness of the framework. It is envisaged that this framework would help in objective assessment of plaque susceptibility and aid in more confident decision making during interventions.",
keywords = "Fibrotic cap, Intravscular optical coherence tomography, Random forests, Tissue characterization",
author = "Roy, {Abhijit Guha} and Sailesh Conjeti and Carlier, {Stephane G.} and Andreas Konig and Adnan Kastrati and Dutta, {Pranab K.} and Laine, {Andrew F.} and Nassir Navab and Debdoot Sheet and Amin Katouzian",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.; 12th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2015 ; Conference date: 16-04-2015 Through 19-04-2015",
year = "2015",
month = jul,
day = "21",
doi = "10.1109/ISBI.2015.7163903",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "428--431",
booktitle = "2015 IEEE 12th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2015",
}