Stiffness assessment of carotid artery via portable B-mode ultrasound imager

Author

Chun-Chieh Huang ; An-Bang Liu ; Wei-Min Liu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Chung-Cheng Univ., Chiayi, Taiwan

fYear

2014

fDate

26-28 May 2014

Firstpage

169

Lastpage

170

Abstract

The arterial vessel stiffness is one of the major factors to determine the vascular health, and only can be measured in the professional institutions. We propose an image processing workflow to analyze the common carotid artery (CCA) ultrasound (US) image series collected from a portable US scanner. The temporal variability of CCA lumen is quantified by approximate entropy. Its reproducibility under different data-dependent variables is also studied. In the future such technique can be integrated into mobile devices equipped with US probes, and become easily accessible to the general public.

Keywords

biomechanics; biomedical equipment; blood vessels; elastic constants; entropy; medical image processing; portable instruments; ultrasonic imaging; CCA lumen; approximate entropy; arterial vessel stiffness; carotid artery; data-dependent variables; image processing workflow; mobile devices; portable B-mode ultrasound imager; professional institutions; stiffness assessment; temporal variability; ultrasound image series; vascular health; Biomedical monitoring; Carotid arteries; Image segmentation; Probes; Ultrasonic imaging; Ultrasonic variables measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics - Taiwan (ICCE-TW), 2014 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCE-TW.2014.6904041

Filename

6904041