Publication detail

Novel Method for Localization of Common Carotid Artery Transverse Section in Ultrasound Images Using Modified Viola-Jones Detector

ŘÍHA, K. MAŠEK, J. BURGET, R. BENEŠ, R. ZÁVODNÁ, E.

Original Title

Novel Method for Localization of Common Carotid Artery Transverse Section in Ultrasound Images Using Modified Viola-Jones Detector

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

This article describes a novel method for highly accurate and effective localization of the transverse section of the carotis comunis artery in ultrasound images. The method has a high success rate, approximately 97%. Unlike analytical methods based on geometric descriptions of the object sought, the method proposed here can cover a large area of shape variation of the artery under study, which normally occurs during examinations as a result of the pressure on the examined tissue, tilt of the probe, setup of the sonographic device, and other factors. This method shows great promise in automating the process of determining circulatory system parameters in the non-invasive clinical diagnostics of cardiovascular diseases. The method employs a Viola-Jones detector that has been specially adapted for efficient detection of transverse sections of the carotid artery. This algorithm is trained on a set of labeled images using the AdaBoost algorithm, Haar-like features and the Matthews coefficient. The training algorithm of the artery detector was modified using evolutionary algorithms. The method for training a cascade of classifiers achieves on a small number of positive and negative training data samples (about 500 images) a high success rate in a computational time that allows implementation of the detector in real time. Testing was performed on images of different patients for whom different ultrasonic instruments were used under different conditions (settings) so that the algorithm developed is applicable in general radiologic practice.

Keywords

Carotid artery, Transverse section, B-mode ultrasound, Image processing, Viola-Jones detector, Evolutionary algorithms

Authors

ŘÍHA, K.; MAŠEK, J.; BURGET, R.; BENEŠ, R.; ZÁVODNÁ, E.

RIV year

2013

Released

17. 4. 2013

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC

Location

New York, USA

ISBN

0301-5629

Periodical

ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY

Year of study

39

Number

10

State

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Pages from

1887

Pages to

1902

Pages count

16

URL

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301562913007199

BibTex

@article{BUT101779,
  author="Kamil {Říha} and Jan {Mašek} and Radim {Burget} and Radek {Beneš} and Eva {Závodná}",
  title="Novel Method for Localization of Common Carotid Artery Transverse Section in Ultrasound Images Using Modified Viola-Jones Detector",
  journal="ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY",
  year="2013",
  volume="39",
  number="10",
  pages="1887--1902",
  doi="10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2013.04.013",
  issn="0301-5629",
  url="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301562913007199"
}