WO2005091885A2 - System and method for vascular border detection - Google Patents

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WO2005091885A2
WO2005091885A2 PCT/US2005/006159 US2005006159W WO2005091885A2 WO 2005091885 A2 WO2005091885 A2 WO 2005091885A2 US 2005006159 W US2005006159 W US 2005006159W WO 2005091885 A2 WO2005091885 A2 WO 2005091885A2
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  • the present invention relates to vascular images, or more particularly, to a system and method of using the frequency spectrum of a radio frequency (RF) signal backscattered from vascular tissue to identify at least one border on a corresponding vascular image.
  • RF radio frequency
  • the present invention relates to medical imaging arts. It finds particular application to a system and method of identifying a border on a vascular image (e.g., intra-vascular ultrasound (IVUS) image, Virtual HistologyTM (VH) image, etc.). It should be appreciated that while the present invention is described in terms of identifying a luminal and medial-adventitial border on an IVUS or VH image, the present invention is not so limited.
  • Ultrasonic imaging of portions of a patient's body provides a useful tool in various areas of medical practice for determining the best type and course of treatment. Imaging of the coronary vessels of a patient by ultrasonic techniques can provide physicians with valuable information. For example, the image data may show the extent of a stenosis in a patient, reveal progression of disease, help determine whether procedures such as angioplasty or atherectomy are indicated or whether more invasive procedures may be warranted.
  • an ultrasonic transducer is attached to the end of a catheter that is carefully maneuvered through a patient's body to a point of interest such as within a blood vessel.
  • the transducer may be a single-element crystal or probe that is mechanically scanned or rotated back and forth to cover a sector over a selected angular range. Acoustic signals are then transmitted and echoes (or backscatter) from these acoustic signals are received.
  • the backscatter data can be used to identify the type of a scanned tissue. As the probe is swept through the sector, many acoustic lines are processed building up a sector-shaped image of the patient.
  • an image of the blood vessel e.g., an IVUS image
  • This image is then visually analyzed by a cardiologist to assess the vessel components and plaque content.
  • a typical analysis includes determining the size of the lumen and amount of plaque in the vessel. This is performed by generating an image of the vessel (e.g., an IVUS image) and manually drawing contoured boundaries on the image where the clinician believes the luminal and the medial-adventitial borders are located.
  • the luminal border which demarcates the blood-intima interface
  • the medial- adventitial border which demarcates the external elastic membrane or the boundary between the media and the adventitia
  • This is a very time consuming process.
  • this process is made more difficult when multiple images are being analyzed (e.g., to recreate a 3D vascular image, etc.) or the images are of poor quality (e.g., making the boundaries more difficult to see).
  • the present invention provides a system and method of using the frequency spectrum of a radio frequency (RF) signal backscattered from vascular tissue to identify at least one border on a vascular image.
  • RF radio frequency
  • Embodiments of the present invention operate in accordance with a data gathering device (e.g., an intra-vascular ultrasound (IVUS) device, etc.) electrically connected to a computing device and a transducer via a catheter.
  • the transducer is inserted into a blood vessel of a patient and used to gather radio frequency (RF) data backscattered from vascular tissue.
  • the RF data is then provided to (or acquired by) the computing device via the data-gathering device.
  • the computing device includes at least one data storage device (e.g., database, memory, etc.) and at least one application (e.g., a characterization application, a gradient-border application, a frequency-border application and/or an active-contour application).
  • a data storage device is used (at least primarily) to store a plurality of tissue types and related parameters. Preferably, the information is stored so that each tissue type is linked to at least one corresponding parameter.
  • the RF data (which is typically in the time domain) is provided to the characterization application, where it is converted (or transformed) into the frequency domain.
  • the characterization application is then used to identify a plurality of parameters associated with the transformed RF data (or a portion thereof).
  • the identified parameters are then compared to the parameters stored in the data storage device to identify the corresponding tissue type (or the type of tissue that backscattered the analyzed RF data).
  • Such a process can be used, for example, to identify portions of RF data (or sets thereof) that are related to at least border-related tissue types (e.g., medial, adventitial, plaque, blood, etc.).
  • the characterization application is further used to identify parameters from the RF data (which is typically in the time domain). Parameters associated with the RF data (or a portion thereof) can be used, for example, to spatially identify certain frequencies (or parameters related thereto).
  • a vascular wall comprises multiple tissue layers
  • corresponding RF data can be used to identify the location of these tissues and the related frequency spectrum can be used to identify tissue types.
  • the identified tissue types and corresponding RF data (or transformations thereof) i.e., identified information
  • the data is then used to identify at least one border on an image of a vascular object (e.g., intra-vascular ultrasound (IVUS) image, Virtual HistologyTM (VH) image, etc.).
  • IVUS intra-vascular ultrasound
  • VH Virtual HistologyTM
  • RF data corresponding to blood and plaque tissue can be used to identify (or substantially approximate) the luminal border on a vascular image.
  • RF data corresponding to plaque, medial and/or adventitial tissue can be used to identify (or substantially approximate) the medial-adventitial border on a vascular image.
  • the computing device further includes a frequency-border application.
  • the characterization application is adapted to provide the identified information to the frequency-border application, where it is used to determine spectral information.
  • the spectral information is then provided to the active-contour application and used to determine at least one border on a vascular image (i.e., image-border data).
  • the spectral information comprises spectral-force data, or data representing a frequency-based force that is applicable to (or a component of) the image-border data.
  • the spectral-information comprises spectral-border data, or data representing an estimation of at least one border on a vascular image.
  • the computing device further includes a gradient-border application.
  • the gradient-border application is adapted to use the acquired RF data to determine gradient information, which can then be used to identify a border or boundary. This is because a change in pixel color (e.g., light-to- dark, dark-to-light, shade1-to-shade2, etc) can indicate the presence of a border.
  • the gradient information comprises gradient-force data, or data that represents a gradient-based force that is applicable to (or a component of) the image-border data.
  • the gradient information comprises gradient-border data, or data that represents an estimation of at least one border on a vascular image (e.g., the IVUS image, a VH image, etc.).
  • the gradient-border data can be used, for example, either alone or together with other border-related information (e.g., spectral information, etc.), to determine at least one border on a vascular image.
  • the active-contour application is further adapted to use other-border information to determine a border on a vascular image.
  • information related to at least one border on another image(s) is used to determine (or approximate) at least one border on the vascular image at issue (i.e., the current vascular image).
  • the active- contour application can be used to adjust the border to more closely match the actual border of the vascular object. This is done by considering, or taking into account continuity data, curvature data, and/or relatedness data.
  • the frequency-border application is further adapted to filter the transformed RF data before it is used to generate spectral information and the gradient-border application is further adapted to process the acquired RF data using traditional IVUS imaging techniques.
  • Figure 1 illustrates a vascular-border-identification system in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
  • Figure 2 illustrates an exemplary intra-vascular ultrasound (IVUS) image.
  • Figure 3 illustrates a plurality of borders that are common to IVUS images.
  • Figure 4 illustrates a plurality of control points on one border of an IVUS image.
  • Figure 5 illustrates how a plurality of 2D vascular images can be used to generate a 3D vascular image.
  • Figure 6 illustrates how the control points from the image depicted in Figure 4 can be extrapolated onto another image.
  • Figure 7 illustrates a vascular image including a luminal boundary, a medial- adventitial boundary, and a plaque component located therebetween.
  • Figure 8 illustrates a method of identifying a border of a vascular object in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
  • DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT The present invention provides a system and method of using the frequency spectrum of a radio frequency (RF) signal backscattered from vascular tissue to identify at least one border on a vascular image.
  • RF radio frequency
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a vascular-border-identification system 10 in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
  • a data-gathering console 200 is electrically connected to a computing device 100 and a transducer 220 via a catheter 210.
  • the transducer 220 is inserted into a blood vessel of a patient (not shown) and used to gather radio frequency (RF) data backscattered from vascular tissue.
  • RF radio frequency
  • the RF data is then provided to (or acquired by) the data-gathering device 200, where it is used (or can be used) to produce an image of the vessel (e.g., intra-vascular ultrasound (IVUS) image, etc.).
  • RF data is typically gathered in segments, either through a rotating transducer or an array of circumferentially positioned transducers, where each segment represents an angular portion of the resultant image.
  • it takes a plurality of segments (or a set of RF data) to image an entire cross-section of a vascular object.
  • multiple sets of RF data are typically gathered from multiple locations within a vascular object (e.g., by moving the transducer linearly through the vessel).
  • the data-gathering device 200 includes, but is not limited to, an IVUS console, thermographic device, optical device (e.g., an optical coherence tomography (OCT) console), MRI device, or any vascular imaging device generally known to those skilled in the art.
  • OCT optical coherence tomography
  • the computing device 100 depicted in Figure 1 includes, but its not limited to, a personal computer or any other data- processing device (general purpose or application specific) that is generally known to those skilled in the art.
  • the RF data (or multiple sets thereof) is provided to (or acquired by) the computing device 100.
  • the computing device 100 includes at least one data storage device (e.g., database 130, memory 150) and a plurality of applications (e.g., a characterization application 110, a gradient-border application 120, a frequency-border application 140 and/or an active-contour application 160).
  • a characterization application 110 e.g., a gradient-border application 120, a frequency-border application 140 and/or an active-contour application 160.
  • the RF data provided to (or acquire by) the computing device 100 is gated to electrocardiogram (ECG) information.
  • ECG electrocardiogram
  • a plurality of tissue types e.g., medial, adventitial, plaque, blood, etc.
  • tissue types e.g., medial, adventitial, plaque, blood, etc.
  • the information is stored so that each tissue type is linked to its corresponding parameters.
  • each tissue type can be identified (or defined) by the parameters that are linked thereto.
  • parameter includes, but is not limited to maximum power, minimum power, frequencies at maximum and/or minimum power, y intercepts (estimated or actual), slope, mid-band fit, integrated backscatter, tissue depth, and all parameters (either time or frequency based) generally known to (or discernable by) those skilled in the art.
  • tissue type includes, but is not limited to, blood tissue, plaque tissue (e.g., calcified tissues, fibrous tissues, calcified-necrotic tissues and fibro-lipidic tissues), medial tissue, adventitial tissue, and all other vascular tissues, or combinations thereof (e.g., medial- adventitial tissue), generally known to those skilled in the art.
  • the data storage devices depicted herein include, but are not limited to, RAM, cache memory, flash memory, magnetic disks, optical disks, removable disks, SCSI disks, IDE hard drives, tape drives and all other types of data storage devices (and combinations thereof, such as RAID devices) generally known to those skilled in the art.
  • the RF data (which is typically in the time domain) is provided to the characterization application 110, where it is converted (or transformed) into the frequency domain.
  • the characterization application 110 is then used to identify a plurality of parameters associated with the transformed RF data (or a portion thereof).
  • the identified parameters are then compared to the parameters stored in the database 130 to identify the corresponding tissue type (or the type of tissue that backscattered the analyzed RF data).
  • tissue type or the type of tissue that backscattered the analyzed RF data.
  • Such a process can be used (e.g., once or repeatedly) to identify the portions of RF data (or sets thereof) that are associated with each stored tissue type (e.g., medial, adventitial, plaque, blood, etc.).
  • the frequency conversion (or transformation) discussed herein includes, but is not limited to, the use of a fast Fourier transformation (FFT), the Welch periodogram, autoregressive power spectrum (AR) analysis, or any other frequency transformation or spectral analysis generally known to those skilled in the art.
  • FFT fast Fourier transformation
  • AR autoregressive power spectrum
  • the RF data may either be received in realtime (e.g., while the patient is in the operating room) or after a period of delay (e.g., via CD-ROM, etc.).
  • the identified parameters should be related (generally) to the stored parameters.
  • an estimated Y intercept parameter should be identified if data related to a signal's estimated Y intercept is stored in the database 130 and linked to at least one tissue type.
  • the characterization application 110 is further used to identify parameters from the RF data (which is typically in the time domain). Parameters associated with the RF data (or a portion thereof) can be used, for example, to spatially identify certain frequencies (or parameters related thereto).
  • a vascular wall comprises multiple tissue layers
  • corresponding RF data can be used to identify the location of these tissues and the related frequency spectrum can be used to identify tissue types.
  • the use of parameters to identify tissue types is discussed in detail in U.S. Patent Number, 6,200,268, which was issued on March 13, 2001 , and U.S. Patent Application Number 10/647,971 , which was filed on August 25, 2003, and are incorporated herein, in their entireties, by reference.
  • the RF data (or a transformation thereof) and the identified tissue types (including the association therebetween) are provided to the active-contour application 160.
  • This data is then used to identify at least one border on an image of a vascular object (e.g., intra-vascular ultrasound (IVUS) image, Virtual HistologyTM (VH) image, etc.).
  • a vascular object e.g., intra-vascular ultrasound (IVUS) image, Virtual HistologyTM (VH) image, etc.
  • IVUS intra-vascular ultrasound
  • VH Virtual HistologyTM
  • RF data corresponding to blood and plaque tissue can be used to identify (or substantially approximate) the luminal border on a vascular image.
  • RF data corresponding to plaque, medial, and/or adventitial tissue can be used to identify (or substantially approximate) the medial-adventitial border on a vascular image. It should be appreciated that the present invention is not limited to the identification of any particular border (or boundary) on a vascular image, and includes all borders generally known to those skilled in the art.
  • characterization application 110 may exist as a single application or as multiple applications, locally and/or remotely stored.
  • the number and location of the components depicted in Figure 1 are not intended to limit the present invention, and are merely provided to illustrate the environment in which the present invention may operate.
  • a computing device having a single data storage device and/or a remotely located characterization application is within the spirit and scope of the present invention.
  • the computing device 100 further includes a frequency-border application 140.
  • the characterization application 110 is adapted to provide the RF data (or a transformation thereof) and the identified tissue types (including the association therebetween) to the frequency-border application 140, where it is used to determine spectral information.
  • the spectral information is then provided to the active-contour application 160 and used to determine at least one border on a vascular image (i.e., image-border data).
  • the spectral information comprises spectral-force data.
  • Spectral-force data is based (either directly or indirectly) on the information provided by the characterization application 110 and represents a frequency-based force that is applicable to (or a component of) the image-border data.
  • the spectral-force data can be used, for example, to determine or refine the image- border data (e.g., as determined by the active-contour application 160).
  • spectral-force data can be used together with other border-related information to determine a border on a vascular image, or applied to a border determined using border-related information (e.g., as an external force).
  • the resultant border is based, at least in part, on the spectral-force data.
  • spectral-force data can be analogized to a gravitation field, in which the force (or field) is used to attract a border in a given direction, or to have a given shape.
  • the strength of the force is directly proportional to the relatedness of the corresponding RF data to a border-related tissue type(s).
  • the spectral information comprises spectral-border data.
  • Spectral-border data is based (either directly or indirectly) on the information provided by the characterization application 110 and represents an estimation of at least one border on a vascular image.
  • the spectral- border data can be used, for example, either alone or together with other border-related information, to determine image-border data (e.g., as determined by the active-contour application 160).
  • spectral information is not limited to spectral-force data and/or spectral-border data, but further includes any data resulting from a spectral analysis of the acquired RF data.
  • the frequency-border application 140 is further adapted to filter the transformed RF data before it is used to generate spectral information. Specifically, in one embodiment of the present invention, a portion of the vascular object is selected. The corresponding transformed RF data and the information stored in the database 130 are then used to identify the tissue types that are related thereto. The minority tissue type is then filtered out.
  • the computing device 100 further includes a gradient-border application 120.
  • the gradient- border application 120 is adapted to use the acquired RF data to determine gradient information, which can then be used to identify a border or boundary (e.g., used by the gradient-border application 120 to estimate at least one border, provided to the active- contour application and used together with spectral information to determine image- border data, etc.). This is because a change in pixel color (e.g., light-to-dark, dark-to- light, shade1-to-shade2, etc) can indicate the presence of a border.
  • Figure 2 illustrates an exemplary IVUS image 20 of a vascular object. Starting from the center and working outward, the catheter can be identified by the first light-to-dark transition (or gradient).
  • the catheter border is further identified in Figure 3 (i.e., 330).
  • the next dark- to-light transition or gradient
  • the medial-adventitial border can then be identified by going outward from the luminal border until the next dark-to-light transition (or gradient) is found (see Figure 3, 310).
  • the IVUS image is constructed using gray-scales, it may be necessary to utilize an algorithm and/or at least one threshold value to identify precisely where the image changes from light to dark (or vice versa).
  • the gradient-border application 120 is further adapted to process the acquired RF data using traditional IVUS imaging techniques.
  • the gradient-border application 120 may be adapted to filter the RF data (e.g., using a highpass filter, etc.), detect relevant portions (e.g., envelope detection, etc.), and/or modulate any portion thereof (e.g., smoothing, log compressing, etc.). Such techniques are all well known to those skilled in the art.
  • the resultant data can then be used to produce an IVUS image or determine gradient information.
  • the gradient information comprises gradient-force data.
  • Gradient-force data is based (either directly or indirectly) on the gradients in an IVUS image and represents a gradient-based force that is applicable to (or a component of) the image-border data.
  • the gradient-force data can be used, for example, to determine or refine the image-border data (e.g., as determined by the active-contour application 160).
  • gradient-force data can be used together with other border-related information to determine a border on a vascular image, or applied to a border determined using border-related information (e.g., as an external force).
  • the resultant border is based, at least in part, on the gradient- force data.
  • gradient-force data can be analogized to a gravitation field, in which the force (or field) is used to attract a border in a given direction, or to have a given shape.
  • the strength of the force (or gravitational pull) is directly proportional to the gradients in the IVUS image (or transitions therein).
  • the gradient information comprises gradient-border data.
  • Gradient-border data is based (either directly or indirectly) on the gradients in an IVUS image and represents an estimation of at least one border on a vascular image (e.g., the IVUS image, a VH image, etc.).
  • the gradient- border data can be used, for example, either alone or together with other border-related information (e.g., spectral information, etc.), to determine at least one border on a vascular image.
  • border-related information e.g., spectral information, etc.
  • the term gradient information is not limited to gradient-force data and/or gradient-border data, but further includes any data resulting from an analysis of the gradients in an IVUS image.
  • the active-contour application 160 is further adapted to use other-border information to determine a border on a vascular image.
  • information related to a border on another image(s) is used to determine (or approximate) at least one border on the vascular image at issue (i.e., the current vascular image).
  • the border-detection algorithm 160 is adapted to identify at least one control point on the border of another image.
  • the border-detection algorithm can be used, for example, to identify a plurality of control points 22 on the luminal border 320. It should be appreciated that the location and number of control points depicted in Figure 4 are not intended to limit the present invention, and are merely provided to illustrate the environment in which the present invention may operate.
  • the active-contour application 160 is adapted to identify a border using user-identified control points. Such an embodiment is discussed in detail in U.S. Patent Number 6,381 ,350, which was issued on April 30, 2002, and is incorporated herein, in its entirety, by reference. With reference to Figure 1 , once the border and control points are identified on another image, the active-contour application 160 can be used to identify at least one control point on the current vascular image. In one embodiment of the present invention, this is done by extrapolating the previously identified control points to the current vascular image. By doing this, multiple 2D images (or at least one 3D image) can be produced.
  • multiple 2D images are used to produce a 3D image of a tubular (e.g., vascular) object 50.
  • a memory device 150 can be used to store information related to this embodiment (e.g., a border on another image, control points on such a border, extrapolated control points, resulting image-border data, etc.).
  • Figure 6 illustrates one method as to how an identified control point can be extrapolated to the current vascular image.
  • control points that were illustrated in Figure 4 are extrapolated (or copied) to the current image (e.g., 52d), thus creating a second set of control points 62.
  • the control points are extrapolated using Cartesian coordinates. It should be appreciated that, while Figure 6 illustrates control points being extrapolated to an adjacent image, the present invention is not so limited. Thus, extracting control points to (or from) additional images (e.g., 52c, 52b, etc.) is within the spirit and scope of the present invention.
  • the active-contour application 160 is further adapted to identify (or approximate) a border based on the extrapolated points.
  • the extrapolated points 62 may be connected using a plurality of lines 64, where the lines are either straight or curved (not shown).
  • the extrapolating application is adapted to use an algorithm (e.g., a cubic-interpolation algorithm, etc.) to identify line shape. Border extrapolation is discussed in detail in U.S. Patent Application Number 10/647,473, which was filed August 26, 2003, and is incorporated herein, in its entirety, by reference.
  • the active-contour application 160 is then used to adjust the border to more closely match the actual border of the vascular object.
  • the active-contour application 160 may consider, or take into account, at least (i) the proximity of the border to each extrapolated point (i.e., continuity or control-point factor), (ii) border curvature or smoothness (i.e., curvature or boundary factor), and/or (iii) the relationship between multiple borders (i.e., relatedness factor). For example, by considering a continuity or control-point factor, the border can be adjusted so that it passes through each extrapolated point. By considering a curvature or boundary factor, the border can be adjusted to prevent sharp transitions (e.g., corners, etc.).
  • multiple borders can be adjusted in relation to one another (e.g., the luminal border can always be located inside the medial-adventitial border, etc.).
  • these three factors are also used to determine related borders on adjacent images. It should be appreciated that if multiple factors are being considered, then individual factors may be weighted more heavily than others. This becomes important if the factors produce different results. It should further be appreciated that the present invention is not limited to the use of the aforementioned factors for border optimization, and that the use of additional factors to adjust (or optimize) a border is within the spirit and scope of the present invention.
  • the adjusted borders are configured to be manually manipulated.
  • the active-contour application 160 is then used (as previously discussed) to reconstruct the border accordingly.
  • the active-contour application is further adapted to adjust related borders in adjacent images. This is done by fitting a geometrical model (e.g., a tensor product B-spline, etc.) over the surface of a plurality of related borders (e.g., as identified on multiple IVUS images). A plurality of points on the geometrical model are then parameterized and formulated into a constrained least-squares system of equations.
  • a geometrical model e.g., a tensor product B-spline, etc.
  • the active-contour application can utilize these equations to calculate a resulting surface (or mesh of control points).
  • the affected borders e.g., adjacent borders
  • the affected borders can then be adjusted accordingly.
  • the aforementioned process can be repeated to identify additional borders.
  • multiple borders e.g., luminal and medial-adventitial borders
  • the active-contour application 160 can either be used (e.g., initiated) to identify a single border on a vascular image, thus requiring a subsequent use to identify another border on the vascular image, or used (e.g., initiated) to identify multiple borders on a vascular image.
  • the multiple borders are identified at substantially the same time.
  • the multiple borders can then be imaged (in either 2D or 3D) and analyzed by either a skilled practitioner or a computer algorithm.
  • the luminal border 74 and the medial- adventitial border 76 can be used (by either a clinician or an algorithm) to identify the plaque-media complex 78 of a vascular object.
  • One method of identifying a border on a vascular image is illustrated in Figure 8.
  • RF data backscattered from vascular tissue is acquired.
  • the RF data is then (i) transformed from the time domain into the frequency domain and (ii) processed using traditional IVUS imaging techniques, at steps 810 and 820, respectively.
  • a plurality of parameters are identified at step 812, and compared to stored parameters, at step 814, to identify a plurality of tissue types.
  • RF data (or a transformation thereof) that corresponds to at least relevant (e.g., border-related) tissue types is identified.
  • the corresponding RF data is then used to determine spectral information (e.g., spectral- force data, spectral-border data, etc.) at step 818.
  • spectral information e.g., spectral- force data, spectral-border data, etc.
  • gradients are used to determine gradient information (e.g., gradient-force data, gradient-border data, etc.) at step 822.
  • other-border data e.g., data related to at least one border on at least one other image
  • the gradient information and spectral information are used to modify the at least one border on the current vascular image, ending the method at step 828.

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