Association of tumor necrosis factor inhibitor treatment with reduced indices of subclinical atherosclerosis in patients with psoriatic disease

L Eder, AA Joshi, AK Dey, R Cook… - Arthritis & …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To assess the effect of tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNF i) on subclinical
cardiovascular disease in patients with psoriatic disease. Methods We performed a 2‐stage …

Resistant atherosclerosis: the need for monitoring of plaque burden

JD Spence, K Solo - Stroke, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose—Recent studies indicate that patients with lower levels of low-
density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) have greater regression of coronary plaque. In 2002 …

An accurate and explainable ensemble learning method for carotid plaque prediction in an asymptomatic population

D Wu, G Cui, X Huang, Y Chen, G Liu, L Ren… - Computer Methods and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background and objective The identification of carotid plaque, one of the most crucial tasks
in stroke screening, is of great significance in the assessment of subclinical atherosclerosis …

Segmentation of common and internal carotid arteries from 3D ultrasound images based on adaptive triple loss

M Jiang, Y Zhao, B Chiu - Medical Physics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Vessel wall volume (VWV) and localized vessel‐wall‐plus‐plaque thickness (VWT)
measured from three‐dimensional (3D) ultrasound (US) carotid images are sensitive to anti …

A dual-stream centerline-guided network for segmentation of the common and internal carotid arteries from 3D ultrasound images

M Jiang, B Chiu - IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Segmentation of the carotid section encompassing the common carotid artery (CCA), the
bifurcation and the internal carotid artery (ICA) from three-dimensional ultrasound (3DUS) is …

Three-dimensional ultrasound assessment of effects of therapies on carotid atherosclerosis using vessel wall thickness maps

Y Zhao, JD Spence, B Chiu - Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
We present a new method for assessing the effects of therapies on atherosclerosis, by
measuring the weighted average of carotid vessel-wall-plus-plaque thickness change (Δ …

Interaction of smoking, hyperhomocysteinemia, and metabolic syndrome with carotid atherosclerosis: a cross-sectional study in 972 non-diabetic patients

MR Azarpazhooh, MSS Andalibi, DG Hackam… - Nutrition, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives Little is known about the interactions between hyperhomocysteinemia and
metabolic syndrome (MetS) in individuals at risk for atherosclerosis. The aim of this study …

Quantification of local vessel wall and plaque volume change for assessment of effects of therapies on carotid atherosclerosis based on 3-D ultrasound imaging

X Chen, Y Zhao, JD Spence, B Chiu - Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
We developed a new method to measure the voxel-based vessel-wall-plus-plaque volume
(VWV). In addition to quantifying local thickness change as in the previously introduced …

Interpretable Deep Biomarker for Serial Monitoring of Carotid Atherosclerosis Based on Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Imaging

X Chen, X Fan, B Chiu - … Conference on Medical Image Computing and …, 2023 - Springer
We developed an interpretable deep biomarker known as Siamese change biomarker
generation network (SCBG-Net) to evaluate the effects of therapies on carotid …

Longitudinal assessment of carotid plaque texture in three-dimensional ultrasound images based on semi-supervised graph-based dimensionality reduction and …

M Lin, H Cui, W Chen, A van Engelen… - Computers in Biology …, 2020 - Elsevier
With continuous development of therapeutic options for atherosclerosis, image-based
biomarkers sensitive to the effect of new interventions are required to be developed for cost …