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.
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;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Imaging: Nano to Macro, 2006. 3rd IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Arlington, VA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9576-X
DOI :
10.1109/ISBI.2006.1625067
