A multicenter study on carotid ultrasound plaque tissue characterization and classification using six deep artificial intelligence models: a stroke application

L Saba, SS Sanagala, SK Gupta… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Atherosclerotic plaque in carotid arteries can ultimately lead to cerebrovascular events if not
monitored. The objectives of this study are (a) to design a set of artificial intelligence (AI) …

[HTML][HTML] Multimodality carotid plaque tissue characterization and classification in the artificial intelligence paradigm: A narrative review for stroke application

L Saba, SS Sanagala, SK Gupta… - Annals of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the
United States of America and globally. Carotid arterial plaque, a cause and also a marker of …

Ultrasound-based internal carotid artery plaque characterization using deep learning paradigm on a supercomputer: a cardiovascular disease/stroke risk assessment …

L Saba, SS Sanagala, SK Gupta, VK Koppula… - … International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Visual or manual characterization and classification of atherosclerotic plaque lesions are
tedious, error-prone, and time-consuming. The purpose of this study is to develop and …

3-D optimized classification and characterization artificial intelligence paradigm for cardiovascular/stroke risk stratification using carotid ultrasound-based delineated …

SS Skandha, SK Gupta, L Saba, VK Koppula… - Computers in Biology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Background and Purpose Atherosclerotic plaque tissue rupture is one of the
leading causes of strokes. Early carotid plaque monitoring can help reduce cardiovascular …

Ten fast transfer learning models for carotid ultrasound plaque tissue characterization in augmentation framework embedded with heatmaps for stroke risk stratification

SS Sanagala, A Nicolaides, SK Gupta, VK Koppula… - Diagnostics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background and Purpose: Only 1–2% of the internal carotid artery asymptomatic plaques
are unstable as a result of> 80% stenosis. Thus, unnecessary efforts can be saved if these …

Far wall plaque segmentation and area measurement in common and internal carotid artery ultrasound using U-series architectures: An unseen Artificial Intelligence …

PK Jain, N Sharma, MK Kalra, A Johri, L Saba… - Computers in Biology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Stroke risk assessment using deep learning (DL) requires automated, accurate, and real-
time risk assessment while ensuring compact model size. Previous DL paradigms suffered …

[HTML][HTML] Atherosclerotic plaque classification in carotid ultrasound images using machine learning and explainable deep learning

S Singh, PK Jain, N Sharma, M Pohit, S Roy - Intelligent Medicine, 2024 - Elsevier
Objective The incidence of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) is rising rapidly worldwide. Some
forms of CVD, such as stroke and heart attack, are more common among patients with …

Plaque tissue morphology-based stroke risk stratification using carotid ultrasound: a polling-based PCA learning paradigm

L Saba, PK Jain, HS Suri, N Ikeda, T Araki… - … , Volume 2: Plaque …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This chapter introduces a polling-based principal component analysis strategy embedded in
the machine-learning framework to select and retain dominant features, resulting in superior …

Attention-based UNet deep learning model for plaque segmentation in carotid ultrasound for stroke risk stratification: an artificial intelligence paradigm

PK Jain, A Dubey, L Saba, NN Khanna… - Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Stroke and cardiovascular diseases (CVD) significantly affect the world population. The
early detection of such events may prevent the burden of death and costly surgery …

Plaque tissue characterization and classification in ultrasound carotid scans: a paradigm for vascular feature amalgamation

UR Acharya, MMR Krishnan, SV Sree… - IEEE Transactions …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The selection of carotid atherosclerosis patients for surgery or stenting is a crucial task in
atherosclerosis disease management. In order to select only those symptomatic cases who …