Sensors 2010, 10(12), 10601-10619; doi:10.3390/s101210601
Article

Automated Detection of the Arterial Inner Walls of the Common Carotid Artery Based on Dynamic B-Mode Signals

Da-Chuan Cheng 1,* email, Arno Schmidt-Trucksäss 2 email, Chung-Hsiang Liu 3 email and Shing-Hong Liu 4 email
1 Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Science, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan 2 Institute of Exercise and Health Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland 3 Department of Neurology, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan 4 Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 7 October 2010; in revised form: 12 November 2010 / Accepted: 18 November 2010 / Published: 29 November 2010
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors in Biomechanics and Biomedicine)
PDF Full-text Download PDF Full-Text [796 KB, uploaded 29 November 2010 15:21 CET]
Abstract: In this paper we propose a novel scheme able to automatically detect the intima and adventitia of both near and far walls of the common carotid artery in dynamic B-mode RF (radiofrequency) image sequences, with and without plaques. Via this automated system the lumen diameter changes along the heart cycle can be detected. Three image sequences have been tested and all results are compared to manual tracings made by two professional experts. The average errors for near and far wall detection are 0.058 mm and 0.067 mm, respectively. This system is able to analyze arterial plaques dynamically which is impossible to do manually due to the tremendous human workload involved.
Keywords: intima; media; adventitia; CCA; plaque

Article Statistics

Click here to load and display the download statistics.

Cite This Article

MDPI and ACS Style

Cheng, D.-C.; Schmidt-Trucksäss, A.; Liu, C.-H.; Liu, S.-H. Automated Detection of the Arterial Inner Walls of the Common Carotid Artery Based on Dynamic B-Mode Signals. Sensors 2010, 10, 10601-10619.

AMA Style

Cheng D-C, Schmidt-Trucksäss A, Liu C-H, Liu S-H. Automated Detection of the Arterial Inner Walls of the Common Carotid Artery Based on Dynamic B-Mode Signals. Sensors. 2010; 10(12):10601-10619.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Cheng, Da-Chuan; Schmidt-Trucksäss, Arno; Liu, Chung-Hsiang; Liu, Shing-Hong. 2010. "Automated Detection of the Arterial Inner Walls of the Common Carotid Artery Based on Dynamic B-Mode Signals." Sensors 10, no. 12: 10601-10619.

Sensors EISSN 1424-8220 Published by MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland RSS E-Mail Table of Contents Alert