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Systems, methods, and computer program products for analysis of vessel attributes for diagnosis, disease staging, and surfical planning

  • US 20070019846A1
  • Filed: 07/16/2004
  • Published: 01/25/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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25. A method for making corresponding measurements across individuals to characterize populations of patients and to classify the population to which a patient is likely to belong, the method comprising:

  • (a) modeling blood vessels of a plurality of different individual patients;

    (b) calculating a map of blood vessel characteristics for each model;

    (c) establishing correspondence across individuals by aligning the models with the maps of blood vessel characteristics;

    (d) based on the correspondences, forming population summaries of consistent measures for diseased and un-diseased groups; and

    (e) using the population summaries to distinguish normal from abnormal measures.

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