Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 59, Issue 10, 1017002(2022)

Feature Extraction Algorithm Based on Carotid Artery Ultrasound Vessels

Guodong Sun, Yunyu Shi*, and Xiang Liu
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  • School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China
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    With the rapid advancement of medical imaging technology and the rapid development in artificial intelligence, intelligent medicine has emerged as a prominent focus of medical study. Although ultrasound imaging technology has many therapeutic uses, most vascular extraction techniques are manual or semiautomatic, and the extraction results are highly subjective and error-prone. For preprocessing carotid artery features, this work uses a multiscale Hessian filtering synergistic technique. It then uses medical prior knowledge to extract the region of interest (ROI) of blood vessels, creates a traversal tracking search algorithm to find blood vessels, and automatically extracts the carotid artery vessel wall using pixel grayscale difference grading. The extraction accuracy can reach 89.3%. This study can lessen the load on physicians, reduce the rate of misdiagnosis owing to subjective diagnosis and allow physicians to perform a quantitative and qualitative examination of vascular morphological features, making clinical diagnosis more objective and accurate.

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    Guodong Sun, Yunyu Shi, Xiang Liu. Feature Extraction Algorithm Based on Carotid Artery Ultrasound Vessels[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2022, 59(10): 1017002

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    Paper Information

    Category: Medical Optics and Biotechnology

    Received: Jul. 8, 2021

    Accepted: Aug. 10, 2021

    Published Online: May. 16, 2022

    The Author Email: Shi Yunyu (yunyushi@sues.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP202259.1017002

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