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Automatic Detection of the Carotid Artery Location from Volumetric Ultrasound Images Using Anatomical Position-Dependent LBP Features

Fumi KAWAI, Satoshi KONDO, Keisuke HAYATA, Jun OHMIYA, Kiyoko ISHIKAWA, Masahiro YAMAMOTO

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We propose a fully automatic method for detecting the carotid artery from volumetric ultrasound images as a preprocessing stage for building three-dimensional images of the structure of the carotid artery. The proposed detector utilizes support vector machine classifiers to discriminate between carotid artery images and non-carotid artery images using two kinds of LBP-based features. The detector switches between these features depending on the anatomical position along the carotid artery. We evaluate our proposed method using actual clinical cases. Accuracies of detection are 100%, 87.5% and 68.8% for the common carotid artery, internal carotid artery, and external carotid artery sections, respectively.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E98-D No.7 pp.1353-1364
Publication Date
2015/07/01
Publicized
2015/04/13
Online ISSN
1745-1361
DOI
10.1587/transinf.2014EDP7359
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Image Recognition, Computer Vision

Authors

Fumi KAWAI
  Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.
Satoshi KONDO
  Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.
Keisuke HAYATA
  Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.
Jun OHMIYA
  Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.
Kiyoko ISHIKAWA
  Yokohama Stroke and Brain Center
Masahiro YAMAMOTO
  Yokohama Stroke and Brain Center

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