The evaluation of arterial wall motion and hemodynamics contribute to early diagnosis of
carotid atherosclerosis. The low wall shear stress in the arteries is known to be related to the …

A novel ultrasound (US) system has been developed to make possible the real-time
assessment of both blood velocity profile and wall displacements in human arteries. The …

To elicit vessel wall inhomogeneities in diameter and distension along an arterial segment,
a 2-D vessel wall-tracking system based on fast B-mode has been developed. The frame …

Analyzing the motion of the common carotid artery (CCA) wall yields effective indicators for
atherosclerosis. In this work, we propose a state-space model and a tracking method for …

Motion estimation from digital video is an ill-posed problem that requires a regularization
approach. Regularization introduces a smoothness constraint that can reduce the resolution …

Clinical studies on atherosclerosis regression/progression performed by intravascular
ultrasound analysis would benefit from accurate alignment of sequences of the same patient …

Background Systolic dilation of the atherosclerotic carotid artery depends on several factors
including arterial compliance and the haemodynamic environment. The purpose of this …

Using a recently developed high-resolution noninvasive ultrasonic method, we recently
demonstrated that the intima-media complex of the common carotid artery show a …

Objectives The aim of this work is to present and evaluate a novel segmentation method for
localizing the contours of the intima-media complex in the carotid artery wall through …

In this work, we investigate nonrigid motion compensation in simultaneously acquired (side-
by-side) B-mode ultrasound (BMUS) and contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) image …