A semiautomated ultrasound border detection program that facilitates clinical measurement of ultrasound carotid intima-media thickness

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 244-251

  Stein, James H ^a   Korcarz, Claudia E ^b   Mays, Maureen E ^b   Douglas, Pamela S ^b   Palta, Mari ^b   Zhang, Hongling ^b   LeCaire, Tamara ^b   Paine, Diane ^b   Gustafson, David ^b   Fan, Liexiang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEASUREMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THICKNESS; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 20044391595     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2004.12.002     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. P. Greenland, J. Abrams, G.P. Aurigemma, M.G. Bond, L.T. Clark, M.H. Criqui Prevention Conference V: Beyond secondary prevention: identifying the high-risk patient for primary prevention. Noninvasive tests of atherosclerotic burden. Writing Group III Circulation 101 2000 E16 E22
2. L.E. Chambless, G. Heiss, A.R. Folsom, W. Rosamond, M. Szklo, A.R. Sharrett Association of coronary heart disease incidence with carotid arterial wall thickness and major risk factors the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study, 1987-1993 Am J Epidemiol 146 1997 483 494
3. L.E. Chambless, A.R. Folsom, L.X. Clegg, A.R. Sharrett, E. Shahar, F.J. Nieto Carotid wall thickness is predictive of incident clinical stroke the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study Am J Epidemiol 151 2000 478 487
4. D. O'Leary, J. Polak, R. Kronmal, T. Manolio, G. Burke, S. Wolfson Jr Carotid artery intima and media thickness as a risk factor for myocardial infarction and stroke in older adults the Cardiovascular Health Study N Engl J Med 340 1999 14 22
5. M.L. Bots, A.W. Hoes, P.J. Koudstaal, A. Hofman, D.E. Grobbee Common carotid intima-media thickness and risk of stroke and myocardial infarction the Rotterdam Study Circulation 96 1997 1432 1437
6. M. Bond, R. Barnes, W. Riley, S. Wilmoth, L. Chambless, G. Howard High-resolution B-mode ultrasound scanning methods in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (ARIC) J Neuroimaging 1 1991 68 73
7. W.A. Riley, R.W. Barnes, W.B. Applegate, R. Dempsey, T. Hartwell, V.G. Davis Reproducibility of noninvasive ultrasonic measurement of carotid atherosclerosis the Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Plaque Study Stroke 23 1992 1062 1068
8. J.M. Bland, D.G. Altman Measurement error proportional to the mean BMJ 313 1996 106
9. J.M. Bland, D.G. Altman Statistical methods for assessing agreement between two methods of clinical measurement Lancet 1 1986 307 310
10. J. Hsu, J. Hwang, H.-K. Liu, S. Ruberg Confidence intervals associated with tests for bioequivalence Biometrika 81 1994 103 114
11. S. Chow, J. Liu Design and analysis of bioequivalence studies 1992 Marcel Dekker New York
12. S.D. Kanters, A. Algra, M.S. van Leeuwen, J.D. Banga Reproducibility of in vivo carotid intima-media thickness measurements a review Stroke 28 1997 665 671
13. I. Wendelhag, Q. Liang, T. Gustavsson, J. Wikstrand A new automated computerized analyzing system simplifies readings and reduces the variability in ultrasound measurement of intima-media thickness Stroke 28 1997 2195 2200
14. E. Stensland-Bugge, K.H. Bonaa, O. Joakimsen Reproducibility of ultrasonographically determined intima-media thickness is dependent on arterial wall thickness the Tromso Study Stroke 28 1997 1972 1980
15. S. Graf, J. Gariepy, M. Massonneau, R.L. Armentano, S. Mansour, J.G. Barra Experimental and clinical validation of arterial diameter waveform and intimal media thickness obtained from B-mode ultrasound image processing Ultrasound Med Biol 25 1999 1353 1363
16. M.A. Espeland, T.E. Craven, W.A. Riley, J. Corson, A. Romont, C.D. Furberg Reliability of longitudinal ultrasonographic measurements of carotid intimal-medial thicknesses. Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Progression Study Research Group Stroke 27 1996 480 485
17. J.S. Duncan, N. Ayache Medical image analysis progress over two decades and the challenges ahead IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Machine Intel 22 2000 85 105
18. Fan L, Von Behren P, Sumanaweera T. Border detection for medical imaging. US Patent (pending). USPTO Publish No. 20040197015.
19. S. Ando Consistent gradient operators IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Machine Intel 22 2000 252 265