On the Automatic Normalization of Plaque Regions in Ultrasound Images of the Carotid

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2014

Authors

Rouco, J (Author) FEUP; Jorge Novo (Author) FEUP; Aurélio Campilho (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: IMAGE ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION, ICIAR 2014, PT II

Pages: 177-184

11th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR)

PORTUGAL, OCT 22-24, 2014

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Authenticus ID: P-00A-1VP

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-11755-3_20

Abstract (EN): In order to assess the atherosclerotic plaque disruption risk from B-mode ultrasound images of the carotid, an appropriate normalization of the plaque regions is required. This is usually achieved through the manual selection of two sample regions in the image containing blood and adventitia tissues, which are used as reference. In this work, we propose a new plaque region normalization method that takes advantage of multiple blood and adventitia reference samples per image, and a method for the automatic selection of these reference samples. Several preliminary results are provided in order to demonstrate the possible capabilities of the proposed methods.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 8