Multiscale amplitude-modulation frequency-modulation (AM-FM) texture analysis of ultrasound images of the intima and media layers of the carotid artery

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 178-188

  Loizou, C P ^a,b   Murray, V ^c   Pattichis, M S ^c   Pantziaris, M ^b   Pattichis, C S ^d  

^a School of Sciences   (Cyprus)

^b CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

^c MSC01 1070   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Amplitude modulation frequency modulation (AMFM); carotid; intima media thickness (IMT); texture analysis

Indexed keywords

AGE GROUPS; AMPLITUDE-MODULATION FREQUENCY-MODULATION (AMFM); CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL PRACTICES; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; EDGE ARTIFACTS; FREQUENCY AXIS; FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; GRAY SCALE; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INSTANTANEOUS AMPLITUDE; INSTANTANEOUS FREQUENCY; INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; LAYER COMPONENTS; LONG AXIS; MEDIA LAYERS; MODULATION FREQUENCIES; MULTISCALES; PREFILTERS; SEGMENTATION SYSTEM; TEXTURE ANALYSIS; TEXTURE FEATURES; TEXTURE VARIATION; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; DISEASES; FREQUENCY BANDS; LOW PASS FILTERS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

TEXTURES;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTIMA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CAROTID ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; TUNICA INTIMA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 79952472151     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2010.2081995     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. American Heart Association, Heart Disease And Stroke Statistics, update, Dallas, Texas, 2007.
2. P. Pignoli, E. Tremoli, A. Poli, P. Oreste, and R. Paoletti, "Intima plus media thickness of the arterial wall: A direct measurement with ultrasound imaging", Atherosclerosis, vol. 74, no. 6, pp. 1399-1406, 1986. (Pubitemid 17189260)
3. E. J. Gussenhoven, P. A. Frietman, S. H., R. J. van Suylen, F. C. van Egmond, C. T. Lancee, H. van Urk, J. R. Roelandt, T. Stijnen, and N. Bom, "Assessment of medial thinning in atherosclerosis by intravascular ultrasound", Am. J. Cardiol., vol. 68, no. 17, pp. 1625-1632, 1991.
4. S. M. Ellis and P. S. Sidhu, "Granularity of the carotid artery intima-medial layer: Reproducibility of quantification by a computer based program", British J. Radiol., vol. 73, no. 870, pp. 595-600, 2000. (Pubitemid 30392214)
5. C. P. Loizou, C. S. Pattichis, A. N. Nicolaides, and M. Pantziaris, "Manual and automated media and intima thickness measurements of the common carotid artery", IEEE. Trans. Ultr. Fer. Freq. Contr., vol. 56, no. 5, pp. 983-994, May 2009.
6. M. L. Grønhold, B. G. Nordestgaard, T. V. Schroeder, S. Vorstrup, and H. Sillensen, "Ultrasonic echolucent carotid plaques predict future strokes", Circulation, vol. 104, no. 1, pp. 68-73, 2001. (Pubitemid 32623291)
7. Q. Liang, I. Wendelhag, J. Wilkstrand, and T. Gustavsson, "A multiscale dynamic programming procedure for boundary detection in ultrasonic artery images", IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 127-142, 2000. (Pubitemid 30594808)
8. L. Lind, J. Andersson, M. Roenn, and T. Gustavsson, "The echogenecity of the intima-media complex in the common carotid artery is closely related to the echogenecity in plaques", Atherosclerosis, vol. 195, no. 2, pp. 411-414, 2007. (Pubitemid 350087964)
9. C. P. Loizou, M. Pantziaris, M. S. Pattichis, E. Kyriakou, and C. S. Pattichis, "Ultrasound image texture analysis of the intima and media layers of the common carotid artery and its correlation with age and gender", Comp, Med. Imag. Graph., vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 317-324, 2009.
10. L. E. Chambless, A. R. Folsom, L. X. Clegg, A. R. Sharrett, E. Shahar, F. J. Nieto, W. D. Rosamond, and G. Evans, "Carotid wall thickness is predictive of incident clinical stroke: The atherosclerosis risk in communities (ARIC) study", Am. J. Epidemiol., vol. 151, no. 5, pp. 478-487, 2000. (Pubitemid 30471022)
11. C. D. Mario, G. Gorge, R. Peters, F. Pinto, D. Hausmann, C. von Birgelen, A. Colombo, H. Murda, J. Roelandt, and R. Erbel, "Clinical application and image interpretation in coronary ultrasound: Study group of intracoronary imaging of the working group of coronary circulation and of the subgroup of intravascular ultrasound of the working group of echocardiography of the European Society of Cardiology", Eur. Heart J., vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 201-229, 1998.
12. V. Murray, P. Rodriguez, and M. S. Pattichis, "Robust multiscale AM-FM demodulation of digital images", IEEE Int. Conf. Image Proc., vol. 1, pp. 465-468, Oct. 2007.
13. C. I. Christodoulou, C. S. Pattichis, V. Murray, M. S. Pattichis, and A. N. Nicolaides, "AM-FM representations for the characterization of carotid plaque ultrasound images", in Proc. 4th Eur. Conf. Int. Feder. Med. Biolog. Eng. (MBEC)'08, Antwerp, Belgium, Nov. 23-28, 2008, pp. 1-4.
14. J. P. Havlicek "AM-FM image models", Ph. D. dissertation, Dept. Electr. Comput. Eng., The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, (1996). [Online]. Available: http://hotnsour.ou.edu/joebob/PdfPubs/ JPHavlicekDiss.pdf
15. V. M. Murray Herrera "AM-FM methods for image and video processing", Ph. D. dissertation, Dept. Electr. Comput. Eng., Univ. New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Sep. 2008.
16. V. Murray, P. Rodriquez, and M. S. Pattichis, "Multi-scale AM-FM demodulation and reconstruction methods with improved accuracy", IEEE Trans. Imag. Proces., vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 1138-1152, May. 2010.
17. M. S. Pattichis, "Multidimensional AM-FM models and methods for biomedical image computing", in Proc. 34th IEEE Ann. Int. Conf. Eng. Med. Biol. Soc., Sep. 2-6, 2009, pp. 5641-5644.
18. V. Murray, M. S. Pattichis, and P. Soliz, "New AM-FM analysis methods for retinal image characterization", in Proc. 42nd IEEE Asilomar Conf. Signals, Syst. Comput., 2008, pp. 664-668.
19. V. Murray, S. Murrilo, M. S. Pattichis, C. P. Loizou, C. S. Pattichis, E. Kyriakou, and A. Nicolaides, "An AM-FM model for motion estimation in atherosclerotic plaque videos", in Proc. 41st IEEE Asilomar Conf. Signals, Syst. Comput., Nov. 4-7, 2007, pp. 746-750.
20. M. S. Pattichis and A. C. Bovik, "Analyzing image structure by multidimensional frequency modulation", IEEE Trans. Pattern. Anal. Mach. Intell., vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 753-766, May 2007. (Pubitemid 46534775)
21. C. I. Christodoulou, C. S. Pattichis, M. Pantziaris, and A. Nicolaides, "Texture-based classification of atherosclerotic carotid plaques", IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., vol. 22, no. 7, pp. 902-912, Jul. 2003.
22. C. Agurto, V. Murray, E. Barriga, S. Murillo, M. S. Pattichis, H. Davis, S. R. Russell, M. D. Abramoff, and P. Soliz, "Multiscale AM-FM methods for diabetic retinopathy lesion detection", IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 502-512, Feb. 2010.
23. F. Bartolomucci, M. Paterni, C. Morizzo, M. Kozakova, N. D'Allitto, F. Strippoli, C. Palombo, and G. Maiorano, "Early structural changes of carotid artery in familial hypercholesterolemia", Am. J. Hypertens., vol. 14, pp. 125 A-126 A, 2001.
24. A Philips Medical System Company, "Comparison of image clarity, SonoCT real-time compound imaging versus conventional 2D ultrasound imaging", ATL Ultrasound, Report, ATL Philips Company, Bothell, WA, Sep. 2001.
25. C. P. Loizou, C. S. Pattichis, M. Pantziaris, T. Tyllis, and A. Nicolaides, "Snakes based segmentation of the common carotid artery intima media", Med. Bio. Eng. Comput., vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 35-49, 2007. (Pubitemid 46140280)
26. T. Elatrozy, A. N. Nicolaides, T. Tegos, A. Zarka, M. Griffin, and M. Sabetai, "The effect of B-mode ultrasonic image standardization of the echodensity of symptomatic and asymptomatic carotid bifurcation plaque", Int. Angiol., vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 179-186, 1998. (Pubitemid 28524062)
27. C. P. Loizou, C. S. Pattichis, M. S. Pantziaris, T. Tyllis, and A. N. Nicolaides, "Quantitative quality evaluation of ultrasound imaging in the carotid artery", Med. Biol. Eng. Comput., vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 414-426, 2006.
28. W. Osika, F. Dangardt, J. Groenros, U. Lundstman, A. Myredall, M. Johansson, R. Volkmann, T. Gustavsson, L. M. Gan, and P. Friberg, "Increasing peripheral artery intima thickness from childhood to seniority", Arterioscler. Thromb. Vasc. Biol., vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 671-676, 2007.
29. A. Schmidt-Truckass, D. Grathwohl, A. Schmid, R. Boragk, C. Upmeier, J. Keul, and M. Huonker, "Structural, functional, and hemodynamic changes of the common carotid artery with age in male subjects", Arterioscler. Thromb. Vasc. Biol., vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 1091-1097, 1999. (Pubitemid 29177360)
30. D. J. Williams and M. Shah, "A fast algorithm for active contour and curvature estimation", GVCIP: Image Underst., vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 4-26, 1992.
31. J. K. Balasundaram and R. S. D. Wahida Banu, "A non-invasive study of alterations of the carotid artery with age using ultrasound images", Med. Biol. Eng. Comput., vol. 44, no. 9, pp. 767-772, 2006. (Pubitemid 44355761)
32. I. Goncalves, M. W. Lindholm, L. M. Pedro, N. Dias, J. Fernandes, G. N. Fredrikson, J. Nilsson, J. Moses, and M. P. S. Ares, "Elastin and calcium rather than collagen or lipid content are associated with echogenecity of human carotid plaques", Stroke, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 795-800, 2004.
33. G. Belcaro, A. Barsotti, and A. N. Nicolaides, "Ultrasonic Biopsy: A non-invasive screening technique to evaluate the cardiovascular system and to follow up the progression of atherosclerosis", Vascular, vol. 20, pp. 40-50, 1991.
34. U. Hoffmann, D. Kwait, J. Handwerker, R. Chan, G. Lamuraglia, and T. J. Brady, "Vascular calcification in ex vivo carotid specimens: Precision and accuracy of measurements with multi-detector row CT", Radiology, vol. 229, no. 2, pp. 375-381, 2003. (Pubitemid 37310820)
35. C. P. Loizou, C. S. Pattichis, M. S. Pantziaris, and A. N. Nicolaides, "An integrated system for the segmentation of atherosclerotic carotid plaque", IEEE Trans. Inform. Techn. Biomed., vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 661-667, Nov. 2007. (Pubitemid 350142411)
36. A. N. Nicolaides, S. K. Kakkos, M. Griffin, M. Sabetai, S. Dhanjil, D. Thomas, G. Geroulakos, N. Georgiou, S. Francis, E. Ioannidou, and C. J. Doré, "Effect of image normalization on carotid plaque classification and the risk of ipsilateral hemispheric events: Results from the asymptomatic carotid stenosis and risk of stroke study", Vascular, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 211-221, 2005. (Pubitemid 41323178)
37. A. Mojsilovic, M. Popovic, N. Amodaj, R. Babic, and M. Ostojic, "Automatic segmentation of intravascular ultrasound images: A texture based approach", Annals Biomed. Eng., vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 1059-1071, 1997.
38. M. Budoff and P. Raggi, "Coronary artery disease progression assessed by electron computed tomography", Am. J. Cardiol., vol. 88, no. 2 A, pp. 46E-50E, 2001. (Pubitemid 32721986)
39. J. Budoff, K. Lane, H. Bakhsheshi, S. Mao, B. O. Grassmann, B. C. Friedman, and B. H. Brundage, "Rates of progression of coronary calcium by electron beam tomography", Am. J. Cardiol., vol. 86, no. 1, pp. 8-11, 2000. (Pubitemid 30365135)