DocumentCode
1819031
Title
Automatic intima-media thickness measurement of carotid artery wall in B-mode sonographic images
Author
Cheng, Da-Chuan ; Jiang, Xiaoyi ; Schmidt-Trucksäss, Arno ; Cheng, Kuo-Sheng
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Munster Univ.
fYear
2006
fDate
6-9 April 2006
Firstpage
912
Lastpage
915
Abstract
We present a novel method for detecting the intima and adventitia of carotid artery in B-mode sonographic images. This method simultaneously detects both layers with the anatomic information of these layers to reduce the influence of noises. We have tested the method on images made from different sonographic instrumentation. A comparison between automatic detection and professional manual tracing is performed. The results show that this method can be applied directly on these instrumentation with few modifications
Keywords
biomedical ultrasonics; blood vessels; B-mode sonographic images; adventitia detection; automatic intima-media thickness measurement; carotid artery wall; manual tracing; Biomedical imaging; Biomedical measurements; Carotid arteries; Computer science; Hospitals; Instruments; Neck; Speckle; Thickness measurement; Transducers;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Biomedical Imaging: Nano to Macro, 2006. 3rd IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location
Arlington, VA
Print_ISBN
0-7803-9576-X
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ISBI.2006.1625067
Filename
1625067
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