Ultrasound-based image analysis for predicting carotid artery stenosis risk: A comprehensive review of the problem, techniques, datasets, and future directions

N Ottakath, S Al-Maadeed, SM Zughaier, O Elharrouss… - Diagnostics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The carotid artery is a major blood vessel that supplies blood to the brain. Plaque buildup in
the arteries can lead to cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis, stroke, ruptured …

An upgraded siamese neural network for motion tracking in ultrasound image sequences

S Bharadwaj, S Prasad… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning is heavily being borrowed to solve problems in medical imaging applications,
and Siamese neural networks are the front runners of motion tracking. In this article, we …

Multi-path decoder U-Net: A weakly trained real-time segmentation network for object detection and localization in ultrasound scans

AF Al-Battal, IR Lerman, TQ Nguyen - Computerized Medical Imaging and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Detecting and localizing an anatomical structure of interest within the field of view of an
ultrasound scan is an essential step in many diagnostic and therapeutic procedures …

Deep learning based motion tracking of ultrasound image sequences

S Bharadwaj, M Almekkawy - 2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Conventional motion estimation techniques in ultrasound images such as exhaustive search-
based block matching (ES-BM) have been studied exhaustively and are known to be …

Measuring tissue elastic properties using physics based neural networks

A Mallampati, M Almekkawy - 2021 IEEE UFFC Latin America …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound elastography is a non-invasive and low-cost imaging technique that is used to
detect abnormalities in soft tissues. Elastography detects solid tumors from healthy tissues …

Segmentation-assisted hierarchical constrained state space approach for robust carotid artery wall motion measurement

J Wu, H Zhang, X Liu, M Lu, Z Gao - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
The common carotid artery (CCA) wall motion measurement has great clinical significance
for preventing the progression of subclinical cardiovascular diseases. However, it is …

A CNN segmentation-based approach to object detection and tracking in ultrasound scans with application to the vagus nerve detection

AF Al-Battal, Y Gong, L Xu, T Morton… - 2021 43rd Annual …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound scanning is essential in several medical diagnostic and therapeutic applications.
It is used to visualize and analyze anatomical features and structures that influence …

Two-dimensional iterative projection method for subsample speckle tracking of ultrasound images

B Rebholz, F Zheng, M Almekkawy - Medical & Biological Engineering & …, 2020 - Springer
Speckle tracking provides robust motion estimation necessary to create accurate post-
processed images. These methods are known to be less accurate in the lateral dimension …

Motion tracking of carotid artery in ultrasound images using Lucas Kanade method with advanced Siamese Neural Networks

M Wasih, M Almekkawy - 2021 IEEE International Ultrasonics …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Siamese neural networks have been used previously for speckle tracking in ultrasound
images. Apart from the lack of adaptivity to the specific video sequence, the main problem …

Object detection and tracking in ultrasound scans using an optical flow and semantic segmentation framework based on convolutional neural networks

AF Al-Battal, IR Lerman… - ICASSP 2022-2022 IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Based on non-ionizing radiation, ultrasound scanning is safe to image a specific region of
the body repeatedly to identify and localize target anatomical structures during therapeutic …