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Detections of Intima-Media Thickness in B-Mode Carotid Artery Images Using Segmentation Methods

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Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 216))

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This study presents the investigations carried out on carotid artery to identify the intima-media thickness of carotid artery that affected with plaques. B-mode ultrasound image video of the artery has been used as the data for processing. The frames of the video are processed to know the plaque properties of the artery. In order to achieve this, two segmentation processing techniques have been used on each frame. The features extracted from the frames are consolidated to know the conditions of the artery. Information of a frame are converted into features. The values of the features are estimated by artificial neural network (ANN) algorithm. ANN has not been used extensively by the past. ANN is used in estimating the plaque thickness in the carotid artery.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Mother Teresa Women’s University, Kodaikanal, India

    V. Savithri

  2. PET Engineering College, Tirunelveli, TN, India

    S. Purushothaman

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  1. School of Electrical and Information Eng, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Swamidoss Sathiakumar

  2. Dept of Computer Science & Engg., National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India

    Lalit Kumar Awasthi

  3. School of Computing Sciences, Hindustan University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

    M. Roberts Masillamani

  4. Department of CSE, SRM University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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Savithri, V., Purushothaman, S. (2014). Detections of Intima-Media Thickness in B-Mode Carotid Artery Images Using Segmentation Methods. In: Sathiakumar, S., Awasthi, L., Masillamani, M., Sridhar, S. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on Internet Computing and Information Communications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 216. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1299-7_44

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