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Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Vascular Disease

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To diagnose vascular disease,physicians usually base their decision on clinical history and physical examina- tion of the patient, as well as visual inspection of medi- cal images. In some cases, confirmation of the diagnosis is particularly difficult because it requires specialization and experience, or even the application of interventional methodologies (e.g. arteriography). While advances in medical imaging technology have greatly contributed to early detection and diagnosis of vascular disease, the selection of patients to whom surgery is offered remains one of the most challenging tasks in the management of vascular disease.

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  1. Biomedical Simulations and Imaging Laboratory Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Spyretta Golemati MD, PhD & Konstantina S. Nikita MD

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  1. Department of Vascular Surgery Athens University Medical School, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece

    Christos D. Liapis MD, FACS, FRCS

  2. Division of Vascular Surgery, Evangelisches Krankenhaus, Mülheim, Germany

    Klaus Balzer MD

  3. Department of Vascular Surgery, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

    Fabrizio Benedetti-Valentini MD

  4. Department of Vascular Surgery Hospital Santa Maria and Faculty of Medicine, Director Instituto Cardiovascular de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    José Fernandes e Fernandes MD, PhD (Chief of Service) (Chief of Service)

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Golemati, S., Nikita, K.S. (2007). Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Vascular Disease. In: Liapis, C.D., Balzer, K., Benedetti-Valentini, F., Fernandes e Fernandes, J. (eds) Vascular Surgery. European Manual of Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30956-7_7

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