Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics and Communication Systems (ICECS), 2015 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Coimbatore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-7224-1
DOI :
10.1109/ECS.2015.7124837
