Non invasive vascular elastography (NIVE) was developed to highlight atherosclerotic
plaque constituents. However, NIVE motion estimates are affected by artifacts, such as an …

Automatic segmentation of the arterial lumen from ultrasound images is an important task in
clinical diagnosis. Carotid artery recognition, the first task in lumen segmentation, should be …

Purpose Our previous studies demonstrate that the variation in ultrasonic envelope statistics
is correlated with the temperature change inside scattering media. This variation is identified …

The intima media thickness (IMT) of the common carotid artery (CCA) can be used to predict
the risk of atherosclerosis. Many image segmentation techniques have been used for IMT …

Edge detection is a primary image processing technique used for object detection, data
extraction, and image segmentation. Recently, edge-based segmentation using structured …

A New model is designed for boundary detection and applied it to object segmentation
problem in medical images. Our edge following technique incorporates a vector image …

Since the late 1970s, the speckle interference patterns ubiquitous in pulse-echo ultrasound
images have been used to characterize sub-resolution tissue structure. During this time, new …

Mixture Modelling for Medical and Health Sciences provides a direct connection between
theoretical developments in mixture modelling and their applications in real world problems …

In this paper, we present a robotic system which automatically searches and detects the
longitudinal section of the carotid artery using a conventional medical ultrasound diagnostic …

Non-destructive testing has become necessary to ensure the quality of materials and
components either in-service or at the production stage. This requires the use of a rapid …