A Hybrid Approach to Quantify the Structure and Dynamics of Vascular System
摘要
Vascular Diseases are the leading cause of death. One can mitigate them with healthy habits and medical assistance. Invasive and non-invasive coronary angiography are medical exams that assess the structural and functional status of the vascular system to support physicians with their diagnostics. Therefore, a more customized approach is still needed to reduce inter-observer and intra-observer variability and improve diagnostic consistency. We propose in this paper a process to quantify the characteristics of the human vascular system, considering a hybrid integrated approach. The proposal has five independent modules: 1 - automatic segmentation; 2 - creation of three-dimensional models of the anatomical structures; 3 - modeling the vascular system as a biomedical network; 4 - objective metrics extraction based on network science; 5 - and qualitative inference. We validate our proposal on images of the heart and retinographies. We present that we can extract relevant topological and semantic features in those cases.