An Approach to Detect the Intima-Media Thickness Based on Characteristic of Envelope Signal
The Intima-Media Thickness of Carotid Artery is an important index to measure cardiovascular disease, usually in clinical use of ultra-sonic diagnostic apparatus for testing. The thickness is generally calculated manually or automatically, manual method is inefficient, and automatical method usually use the general image edge detection algorithms, with no optimization for signal characteristics. According to the characteristics of carotid intima-media envelope, presents a new method to calculate its thickness. Experiments show that this method can efficiently mark the position of carotid intima-media up and down the border, then obtains accurate thickness values.
Carotid ArteryIntima-Media ThicknessEnvelope Signal
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万方数据
维普
