Carotid Artery Plaque Classification: Does Contrast Enhancement Play a Significant Role?

Carotid artery plaque classification: does contrast enhancement play a significant role?

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Previous articles have demonstrated that carotid artery plaques may have enhancement after administration of contrast material. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of enhancement in carotid artery classification. MATERIALS AND METHODS Three hundred eighty consecutive patients (235 men, 145 women; median age 64, age range 32-87 years) were analyzed using...

The Unstable Carotid Artery Plaque

Does Normalization Methods Play a Role for Hyperspectral Image Classification?

For Hyperspectral image (HSI) datasets, each class have their salient feature and classifiers classify HSI datasets according to the class's saliency features, however, there will be different salient features when use different normalization method. In this letter, we report the effect on classifiers by different normalization methods and recommend the best normalization methods for classifier...

In patients undergoing cardiac surgery does asymptomatic significant carotid artery stenosis warrant carotid endarterectomy?

A best evidence topic in cardiovascular surgery was written according to a structured protocol. The question addressed was whether asymptomatic significant carotid artery stenosis (ASCAS) warrants carotid endarterectomy (CEA) in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. 128 Papers were found using the reported search, of these 10 presented represent the best evidence to answer the clinical question....

A Penetrating Pellet Jeopardizing Internal Carotid Artery