Carotid atherosclerosis is a major and potentially preventable cause of ischemic stroke. It
begins early in life and progresses silently over the years. Identification of individuals with …

Gene therapy has been widely investigated for the treatment of genetic, acquired, and
infectious diseases. Pioneering work utilized viral vectors; however, these are suspected of …

Ultrasound (US) imaging is widely used for biometric measurement and diagnosis of internal
organs due to the advantages of being real-time and radiation-free. However, due to inter …

Several arterial diseases are closely related with mechanical properties of the blood vessel
and interactions of flow–vessel dynamics such as mean flow velocity, wall shear stress …

We propose a basis splines-based based active contour method for the segmentation of
lumen boundary and media adventitia boundary from transverse and longitudinal B-mode …

As opposed to arterial distension in the radial plane, longitudinal wall motion (LWM) is a
multiphasic and bidirectional displacement of the arterial wall in the anterograde (ie, in the …

Thickening of intima-media complex in the common carotid artery is a biomarker of
atherosclerosis. To automatically measure this thickness, we propose a region-based …

The longitudinal motion of the arterial wall, that is, the displacement of the arterial wall along
the artery, parallel to blood flow, is still largely unexplored. The magnitude and nature of …

Recent observations have identified a distinct longitudinal motion pattern of the common
carotid artery, where the wall oscillates along its length both with (anterograde) and against …

For more detailed measurement of cardiovascular motion and complex blood flow, a two-
dimensional (2D) velocity estimation method is required in functional ultrasound imaging …