An improved ultrasound video sequence determination algorithm to estimate the Intima Media Thickness in the diagnosis of common carotid artery disease

Author

Selvaraj, Rathika ; Kanakaraj, Agila

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun., Sri ManakulaVinayagar Eng. Coll., Puducherry, India

fYear

2015

fDate

26-27 Feb. 2015

Firstpage

15

Lastpage

20

Abstract

The measurement of the Intima Media Thickness (IMT) have a clinical relevance in accord ance with cardiovascular disease. Fully automatic algorithm is developed for the test of arterial wall thickening and for automatic measurement, tracking and segmentation of the Intima Media Complex (IMC) in B-mode ultrasound video sequences. The Adaptive Normalized Correlation (ANC) algorithm has two stage of operation, first the segmentation of the arterial wall and next the tracking of the IMT layer with the measurement.

Keywords

medical image processing; ultrasonic imaging; video signal processing; ANC algorithm; B-mode ultrasound video sequences; adaptive normalized correlation; arterial wall thickening; automatic measurement; cardiovascular disease; carotid artery disease diagnosis; improved ultrasound video sequence determination algorithm; intima media thickness; Arteries; Biomedical imaging; Image segmentation; Maximum likelihood detection; Noise; Ultrasonic imaging; Ultrasonic variables measurement; Adaptive Normalized Correlation (ANC); Intima Media Thickness (IMT); cardiovascular disease;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics and Communication Systems (ICECS), 2015 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coimbatore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-7224-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECS.2015.7124837

Filename

7124837