Computing and Visualization for Intravascular Imaging and Computer-Assisted Stenting

Section I: Clinical Introduction 1: Intravascular Imaging to Assess Coronary Atherosclerosis and Percutaneous Coronary Interventions 2: Atherosclerotic Plaque Progression and OCT/IVUS Assessment 3: AAA Treatment Strategy Change Over Time 4: Overview of Different Medical Imaging Techniques for the Identification of Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaques

Section II: Vascular and Intravascular Analysis of Plaque 5: Implications of the Kinematic Activity of the Atherosclerotic Plaque: Analysis Using a Comprehensive Framework for B-Mode Ultrasound of the Carotid Artery 6: Right Generalized Cylinder Model for Vascular Segmentation 7: Domain Adapted Model for In Vivo Intravascular Ultrasound Tissue Characterization 8: Intracoronary Optical Coherence Tomography

Section III: Vascular Biomechanics and Modeling 9: Vascular Hemodynamics with Computational Modeling and Experimental Studies 10: Arterial Flow Impact on Aneurysmal Hemodynamics 11: Toward a Mechanical Mapping of the Arterial Tree: Challenges and Potential Solutions

Section IV: Computer-Assisted Stenting 12: Computerized Navigation Support for Endovascular Procedures 13: Interventional Quantification of Cerebral Blood Flow 14: Virtual Stenting for Intracranial Aneurysms: A Risk-Free, Patient-Specific Treatment Planning Support for Neuroradiologists and Neurosurgeons 15: Preoperative Planning of Endovascular Procedures in Aortic Aneurysms

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. In 2011, Maria A. Zuluaga obtained her PhD degree from Université Claude Bernard Lyon I investigating automatic methods for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. After a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (Grenoble, France), she joined University College London, in March 2012, as a Research Associate to work on cardiovascular image analysis and computer-aided diagnosis of cardiovascular pathologies. Since August 2014, she is part of the Image-guided fetal surgery project (GIFT-Surg) project as a senior research associate. Guillaume Zahnd received his engineering degree from the National Institutes of Applied Science (INSA-Lyon, France) in 2007, and obtained his PhD from CREATIS laboratory, University of Lyon (France) in 2012. In 2013, he joined the Biomedical Imaging Group Rotterdam, Erasmus MC (Netherlands) as a PostDoc researcher. From 2016, he is a research fellow in the Imaging-based Computational Biomedicine laboratory at Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Japan). His work focuses on image processing methodologies towards cardiovascular risk assessment. His field of interest includes vascular imaging, image-based biomarkers, ultrasound, intracoronary optical coherence tomography, motion tracking, contour segmentation and machine learning. Su-Lin