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Automatic measurement of the artery intima-media thickness with image empirical mode decomposition

  • Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Artery intima-media thickness (IMT) is a useful marker for diagnosis of atherosclerosis. In this paper, we have proposed a new scheme for detection and measurement of the IMT in medical ultrasound images, in which the image empirical mode decomposition (IEMD) is used as the detection part as well as adaptive gray stretching, and watershed segmentation for extracting boundary of intima. To measure the IMT, a new method combing with regional positioning and boundary fitting is adopted. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme can yield a good measurement result, and the calculation time can satisfy the practical requirement. Moreover, our method needs less manual input than others.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2010 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, IST 2010 - Proceedings
Pages306-310
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event2010 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, IST 2010 - Thessaloniki, Greece
Duration: 1 Jul 20102 Jul 2010

Publication series

Name2010 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, IST 2010 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference2010 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, IST 2010
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityThessaloniki
Period1/07/102/07/10

Keywords

  • IEMD
  • IMT
  • Intima-media layer
  • Watershed

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