Completely automated robust edge snapper for carotid ultrasound IMT measurement on a multi-institutional database of 300 images

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 935-945

  Molinari, Filippo ^a   Rajendra Acharya, U ^b   Zeng, Guang ^c   Meiburger, Kristen M ^a   Suri, Jasjit S ^d,e  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^c MBF Bioscience   (United States)

^d Global Biomedical Technologies Inc   (United States)

^e IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Carotid; Edge based operator; Integrated approach; Intima media thickness; Segmentation; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISEASES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INTEGRATED CONTROL; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID; EDGE-BASED; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTIMA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; TUNICA MEDIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 79961133725     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-011-0781-8     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. C Alberola-Lopez M Martin-Fernandez J Ruiz-Alzola 2004 Comments on: a methodology for evaluation of boundary detection algorithms on medical images IEEE Trans Med Imaging 23 5 658 660 15147018 10.1109/TMI.2004.826358
2. JJ Badimon B Ibanez G Cimmino 2009 Genesis and dynamics of atherosclerotic lesions: implications for early detection Cerebrovasc Dis 27 Suppl 1 38 47 19342832 10.1159/000200440
3. V Chalana Y Kim 1997 A methodology for evaluation of boundary detection algorithms on medical images IEEE Trans Med Imaging 16 5 642 652 9368120 10.1109/42.640755 1:STN:280:DyaK1c%2FjsVCrsw%3D%3D (Pubitemid 127767643)
4. DC Cheng A Schmidt-Trucksass KS Cheng H Burkhardt 2002 Using snakes to detect the intimal and adventitial layers of the common carotid artery wall in sonographic images Comput Methods Programs Biomed 67 1 27 37 11750945 10.1016/S0169-2607(00)00149-8 (Pubitemid 34031723)
5. E de Groot SI van Leuven R Duivenvoorden, et al. 2008 Measurement of carotid intima-media thickness to assess progression and regression of atherosclerosis Nat Clin Pract Cardiovasc Med 5 5 280 288 18332891 10.1038/ncpcardio1163 (Pubitemid 351593910)
6. S Delsanto F Molinari P Giustetto, et al. 2007 Characterization of a completely user-independent algorithm for carotid artery segmentation in 2-d ultrasound images IEEE Trans Instrum Meas 56 4 1265 1274 10.1109/TIM.2007.900433 (Pubitemid 47249889)
7. M Demi M Paterni A Benassi 2000 The first absolute central moment in low-level image processing Comput Vis Image Underst 80 1 57 87 10.1006/cviu.2000.0861
8. F Destrempes J Meunier MF Giroux G Soulez G Cloutier 2009 Segmentation in ultrasonic b-mode images of healthy carotid arteries using mixtures of Nakagami distributions and stochastic optimization IEEE Trans Med Imaging 28 2 215 229 19068423 10.1109/TMI.2008.929098
9. F Faita V Gemignani E Bianchini, et al. 2008 Real-time measurement system for evaluation of the carotid intima-media thickness with a robust edge operator J Ultrasound Med 27 9 1353 1361 18716145
10. L Fan P Santago W Riley DM Herrington 2001 An adaptive template-matching method and its application to the boundary detection of brachial artery ultrasound scans Ultrasound Med Biol 27 3 399 408 11369126 10.1016/S0301- 5629(00)00349-5 1:STN:280:DC%2BD3M3nslGjtA%3D%3D (Pubitemid 32448004)
11. S Golemati J Stoitsis T Balkizas K Nikita 2005 Comparison of b-mode, m-mode and hough transform methods for measurement of arterial diastolic and systolic diameters Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2 1 1758 1761 17282555 1:STN:280:DC%2BC3cfgsFSmsw%3D%3D (Pubitemid 46229237)
12. S Golemati J Stoitsis EG Sifakis T Balkizas KS Nikita 2007 Using the hough transform to segment ultrasound images of longitudinal and transverse sections of the carotid artery Ultrasound Med Biol 33 12 1918 1932 17651891 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.05.021 (Pubitemid 350236527)
13. D Jin Y Wang 2007 Doppler ultrasound wall removal based on the spatial correlation of wavelet coefficients Med Biol Eng Comput 45 11 1105 1111 17684782 10.1007/s11517-007-0240-8 (Pubitemid 350162659)
14. AM Kampoli D Tousoulis C Antoniades G Siasos C Stefanadis 2009 Biomarkers of premature atherosclerosis Trends Mol Med 15 7 323 332 19577961 10.1016/j.molmed.2009.06.001 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD1MXosVaht7w%3D
15. Q Liang I Wendelhag J Wikstrand T Gustavsson 2000 A multiscale dynamic programming procedure for boundary detection in ultrasonic artery images IEEE Trans Med Imaging 19 2 127 142 10784284 10.1109/42.836372 1:STN:280: DC%2BD3c3ksVyksg%3D%3D (Pubitemid 30594808)
16. C Liguori A Paolillo A Pietrosanto 2001 An automatic measurement system for the evaluation of carotid intima-media thickness IEEE Trans Instrum Meas 50 6 1684 1691 10.1109/19.982968 (Pubitemid 34191780)
17. CP Loizou CS Pattichis CI Christodoulou, et al. 2005 Comparative evaluation of despeckle filtering in ultrasound imaging of the carotid artery IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control 52 10 1653 1669 16382618 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1561621 (Pubitemid 41729795)
18. CP Loizou CS Pattichis M Pantziaris T Tyllis A Nicolaides 2006 Quality evaluation of ultrasound imaging in the carotid artery based on normalization and speckle reduction filtering Med Biol Eng Comput 44 5 414 426 16937183 10.1007/s11517-006-0045-1 1:STN:280:DC%2BD28rht1Cjtw%3D%3D (Pubitemid 43949698)
19. CP Loizou CS Pattichis M Pantziaris T Tyllis A Nicolaides 2007 Snakes based segmentation of the common carotid artery intima media Med Biol Eng Comput 45 1 35 49 17203319 10.1007/s11517-006-0140-3 1:STN:280: DC%2BD2s%2FjsFCksg%3D%3D (Pubitemid 46140280)
20. Molinari F, Delsanto S, Giustetto P et al (2008) User-independent plaque segmentation and accurate intima-media thickness measurement of carotid artery wall using ultrasound. In: Suri JS, Kathuria C, Chang RF, Molinari F, Fenster A (eds) Advances in diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound imaging. Artech House, Norwood, MA, pp 111-140
21. F Molinari W Liboni P Giustetto S Badalamenti JS Suri 2009 Automatic computer-based tracings (act) in longitudinal 2-d ultrasound images using different scanners J Mech Med Biol 9 4 481 505 10.1142/S0219519409003115
22. F Molinari G Zeng J Suri 2010 Greedy technique and its validation for fusion of two segmentation paradigms leads to an accurate intima-media thickness measure in plaque carotid arterial ultrasound J Vasc Ultrasound 34 2 63 73
23. F Molinari G Zeng JS Suri 2010 A state of the art review on intima-media thickness (imt) measurement and wall segmentation techniques for carotid ultrasound Comput Methods Programs Biomed 100 201 221 20478640 10.1016/j.cmpb.2010.04.007
24. F Molinari G Zeng JS Suri 2010 An integrated approach to computer- based automated tracing and its validation for 200 common carotid arterial wall ultrasound images: a new technique J Ultrasound Med 29 399 418 20194936
25. Molinari F, Zeng G and Suri JS (2010) Effect of learning algorithm on automated tracigns of adventitia borders in atherosclerotic common carotid artery (cca) ultrasound. 2010 AIUM Annual Convention, San Diego, CA, USA
26. F Molinari G Zeng JS Suri 2010 Intima-media thickness: setting a standard for completely automated method for ultrasound IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control 57 5 1112 1124 20442021 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1522
27. P Pignoli T Longo 1988 Evaluation of atherosclerosis with b-mode ultrasound imaging J Nucl Med Allied Sci 32 3 166 173 3066862 1:STN:280:DyaL1M7ktFSmsA%3D%3D (Pubitemid 19018178)
28. K Polat F Latifoglu S Kara S Gunes 2008 Usage of a novel, similarity-based weighting method to diagnose atherosclerosis from carotid artery Doppler signals Med Biol Eng Comput 46 4 353 362 17960442 10.1007/s11517-007-0279-6 (Pubitemid 351436978)
29. AC Rossi PJ Brands AP Hoeks 2008 Automatic recognition of the common carotid artery in longitudinal ultrasound b-mode scans Med Image Anal 12 6 653 665 18448382 10.1016/j.media.2008.03.003
30. AC Rossi PJ Brands AP Hoeks 2010 Automatic localization of intimal and adventitial carotid artery layers with noninvasive ultrasound: a novel algorithm providing scan quality control Ultrasound Med Biol 36 3 467 479 20172448 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2009.12.007
31. A Simon J Gariepy G Chironi JL Megnien J Levenson 2002 Intima-media thickness: a new tool for diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular risk J Hypertens 20 2 159 169 11821696 10.1097/00004872-200202000-00001 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD38XmvFCns7s%3D (Pubitemid 34913777)
32. JH Stein CE Korcarz ME Mays, et al. 2005 A semiautomated ultrasound border detection program that facilitates clinical measurement of ultrasound carotid intima-media thickness J Am Soc Echocardiogr 18 3 244 251 15746714 10.1016/j.echo.2004.12.002 (Pubitemid 40289045)
33. JS Suri RM Haralick FH Sheehan 2000 Greedy algorithm for error correction in automatically produced boundaries from low contrast ventriculograms Pattern Anal Appl 3 1 39 60 10.1007/s100440050005
34. PJ Touboul MG Hennerici S Meairs, et al. 2004 Mannheim intima-media thickness consensus Cerebrovasc Dis 18 4 346 349 15523176 10.1159/000081812 (Pubitemid 39664263)
35. PJ Touboul P Prati PY Scarabin, et al. 1992 Use of monitoring software to improve the measurement of carotid wall thickness by b-mode imaging J Hypertens Suppl 10 5 S37 S41 1403232 10.1097/00004872-199207005-00006 1:STN:280:DyaK3s%2FhvFKqsA%3D%3D
36. IM van der Meer ML Bots A Hofman, et al. 2004 Predictive value of noninvasive measures of atherosclerosis for incident myocardial infarction: the Rotterdam study Circulation 109 9 1089 1094 14993130 10.1161/01.CIR.0000120708. 59903.1B (Pubitemid 38332611)
37. M Walter 2009 Interrelationships among hdl metabolism, aging, and atherosclerosis Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 29 9 1244 1250 19667114 10.1161/ATVBAHA.108.181438 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD1MXpsFykt7Y%3D