Carotid wall longitudinal motion in ultrasound imaging: an expert consensus review

FY Rizi, J Au, H Yli-Ollila, S Golemati… - Ultrasound in Medicine …, 2020 - Elsevier
Motion extracted from the carotid artery wall provides unique information for vascular health
evaluation. Carotid artery longitudinal wall motion corresponds to the multiphasic arterial …

Motion tracking of the carotid artery wall from ultrasound image sequences: a nonlinear state-space approach

Z Gao, Y Li, Y Sun, J Yang, H Xiong… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The motion of the common carotid artery (CCA) wall has been established to be useful in
early diagnosis of atherosclerotic disease. However, tracking the CCA wall motion from …

Ultrasound-image-based cardiovascular tissue motion estimation

S Golemati, A Gastounioti… - IEEE Reviews in …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The estimation of cardiovascular tissue motion from ultrasound images is a task of
considerable importance but has remained difficult in clinical practice, mainly due to the …

Robust segmentation of intima–media borders with different morphologies and dynamics during the cardiac cycle

S Zhao, Z Gao, H Zhang, Y Xie, J Luo… - IEEE journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Segmentation of carotid intima-media (IM) borders from ultrasound sequences is
challenging because of unknown image noise and varying IM border morphologies and/or …

2-D arterial wall motion imaging using ultrafast ultrasound and transverse oscillations

S Salles, AJY Chee, D Garcia, CH Alfred… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrafast ultrasound is a promising imaging modality that enabled, inter alia, the
development of pulse wave imaging and the local velocity estimation of the so-called pulse …

Robust estimation of carotid artery wall motion using the elasticity-based state-space approach

Z Gao, H Xiong, X Liu, H Zhang, D Ghista, W Wu… - Medical image …, 2017 - Elsevier
The dynamics of the carotid artery wall has been recognized as a valuable indicator to
evaluate the status of atherosclerotic disease in the preclinical stage. However, it is still a …

Regional thermal hyperemia in the human leg: Evidence of the importance of thermosensitive mechanisms in the control of the peripheral circulation

N Koch Esteves, OR Gibson, AW Khir… - Physiological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hyperthermia is thought to increase limb blood flow through the activation of thermosensitive
mechanisms within the limb vasculature, but the precise vascular locus in which …

Faster search algorithm for speckle tracking in ultrasound images

S Bharadwaj, M Almekkawy - 2020 42nd Annual International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Block matching techniques have been studied exhaustively for motion estimation in
Ultrasound (US) images. Exhaustive Search (ES) is the most commonly used search …

Reduced common carotid artery longitudinal wall motion and intramural shear strain in individuals with elevated cardiovascular disease risk using speckle tracking

J Tat, JS Au, PJ Keir… - Clinical physiology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Longitudinal motion of the intima–media and adventitia layers of the common carotid artery
(CCA) wall were assessed with ultrasound speckle tracking in seven individuals with spinal …

Vascular wall motion detection models based on long short-term memory in plane-wave-based ultrasound imaging

J Seo, LS Nguon, S Park - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Vascular wall motion can be used to diagnose cardiovascular diseases. In this
study, long short-term memory (LSTM) neural networks were used to track vascular wall …