Title :
Measurement of ultrasonic diaphragmatic motion
Author :
C. Chrysostomou;C. P. Loizou;G. Minas;K. Delibasis;C. S. Pattichis
Author_Institution :
Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, School of Sciences, University of Thessaly, Lamia, Greece
Abstract :
The motion characteristics of the diaphragmatic muscle may provide useful information about normal and abnormal diaphragmatic function and indicate diaphragmatic weakness. The objective of this paper was to introduce a simple system for the quantitative analysis of ultrasonic diaphragmatic motion. The measurements routinely carried out by the experts were computed and these include: (i) excursion, (ii) inspiration time (Tinsp) and (iii) cycle duration (Ttot). The system was evaluated on four simulated videos and one real video. Manual and automated measurements were very close. Further work in a larger number of videos is needed for validating the proposed method.
Keywords :
"Videos","Ultrasonic variables measurement","Ultrasonic imaging","Biomedical measurement","Motion measurement","Acoustics","Speckle"
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Electronic_ISBN :
1558-4615
DOI :
10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319847