This paper reviews ultrasound segmentation methods, in a broad sense, focusing on
techniques developed for medical B-mode ultrasound images. First, we present a review of …

Stroke is one of the prominent causes of death in the recent days. The existence of
susceptible plaque in the carotid artery can be used in ascertaining the possibilities of …

The goal of this work is to perform a segmentation of the intimamedia thickness (IMT) of
carotid arteries in view of computing various dynamical properties of that tissue, such as the …

Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is a catheter based medical imaging technique particularly
useful for studying atherosclerotic disease. It produces cross-sectional images of blood …

This chapter provides the basic theoretical background of despeckle filtering techniques
together with their algorithmic implementation and MATLAB™ code for selected filters. The …

Image quality is important when evaluating ultrasound images of the carotid for the
assessment of the degree of atherosclerotic disease, or when transferring images through a …

In this paper, we propose and evaluate an integrated system for the segmentation of
atherosclerotic plaque in ultrasound imaging of the carotid artery based on normalization …

Segmentation remains a necessary step in medical imaging to obtain qualitative
measurements such as the location of objects of interest as well as for quantitative …

Background and objective Carotid artery atherosclerosis is an important cause of stroke.
Ultrasound imaging has been widely used in the diagnosis of atherosclerosis. Therefore …

It is well known that speckle is a multiplicative noise that degrades image and video quality
and the visual expert's evaluation in ultrasound imaging and video. This necessitates the …