Publication detail

Common Carotid Artery Wall Localization in B-mode Ultrasound Images

Jan Dorazil

Original Title

Common Carotid Artery Wall Localization in B-mode Ultrasound Images

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

Analysis of B-mode ultrasound images capturing the common carotid artery (CCA) provides significant indicators of the overall health of the cardiovascular system. In this paper we propose a novel method for automatic localization of the artery wall contour (approximated by circle) in utrasound images of the transverse section of the CCA. After detection of a region of interest (ROI) using a modified Viola-Jones detector we localize the best-fitting circle, which delimits the artery wall contour, by exhaustive search. Experimental results on a dataset of 145 ultrasound images show that the method outperforms a reference method based on the Hough transform and presents an excellent robustness against additive noise on different SNR levels.

Keywords

common carotid artery; B-mode ultrasound; artery wall localization

Authors

Jan Dorazil

Released

25. 4. 2019

Publisher

Vysoké učení technické v Brně, Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních

Location

Brno

ISBN

978-80-214-5735-5

Book

Proceedings of the 25th Conference STUDENT EEICT 2019

Edition number

1

Pages from

749

Pages to

753

Pages count

5

URL

http://conf.feec.vutbr.cz/eeict

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT156700,
  author="Jan {Dorazil}",
  title="Common Carotid Artery Wall Localization in B-mode Ultrasound Images",
  booktitle="Proceedings of the 25th Conference STUDENT EEICT 2019",
  year="2019",
  number="1",
  pages="749--753",
  publisher="Vysoké učení technické v Brně, Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních",
  address="Brno",
  isbn="978-80-214-5735-5",
  url="http://conf.feec.vutbr.cz/eeict"
}