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An automatic 2D CAD algorithm for the segmentation of the IMT in ultrasound carotid artery images

Ilea, Dana E., Whelan, Paul F. orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-9230-7656, Brown, C. and Stanton, Alice (2009) An automatic 2D CAD algorithm for the segmentation of the IMT in ultrasound carotid artery images. In: EMBC 2009 - Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 3-6 September 2009, Minneapolis, MN, USA. ISBN 978-1-4244-3296-7

Abstract
Common carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) is a reliable measure of early atherosclerosis - its accurate measurement can be used in the process of evaluating the presence and tracking the progression of disease. The aim of this study is to introduce a novel unsupervised Computer Aided Detection (CAD) algorithm that is able to identify and measure the IMT in 2D ultrasound carotid images. The developed technique relies on a suite of image processing algorithms that embeds a statistical model to identify the two interfaces that form the IMT without any user intervention. The proposed image segmentation scheme is based on a spatially continuous vascular model and consists of several steps including data preprocessing, edge filtering, model selection, edge reconstruction and data refinement. To conduct a quantitative evaluation each image was manually segmented by clinical experts and performance metrics between the segmentation results obtained by the proposed method and the ground truth data were calculated. The experimental results show that the proposed CAD system is robust in accurately estimating the IMT in ultrasound carotid data.
Metadata
Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:image analysis; biomedical ultrasonics; blood vessels; diseases; edge detection; image reconstruction; image segmentation; medical image processing; statistical analysis;
Subjects:UNSPECIFIED
DCU Faculties and Centres:Research Initiatives and Centres > Research Institute for Networks and Communications Engineering (RINCE)
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2009. . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. ISBN 978-1-4244-3296-7
Publisher:Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Official URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333773
Copyright Information:©2009 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.
Funders:Higher Education Authority
ID Code:15572
Deposited On:27 Jul 2010 13:16 by DORAS Administrator . Last Modified 11 Jan 2019 15:57
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