Yong Chen
Sichuan University

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Localizing Region-Based Level-set Contouring for Common Carotid Artery in Ultrasonography Yong Chen; Xiao Ming Zhou; Dong C Liu
TELKOMNIKA (Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control) Vol 11, No 4: December 2013
Publisher : Universitas Ahmad Dahlan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.12928/telkomnika.v11i4.1202

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 This work developed a fully-automated and efficient method for detecting contour of common carotid artery in the cross section view of two-dimensional B-mode sonography. First, we applied a preprocessing filter to the ultrasound image for the sake of reducing speckle. An adaptive initial contouring method was then performed to obtain the initial contour for level set segmentation. Finally, the localizing region-based level set segmentation automatically extracted the precise contours of common carotid artery. The proposed method evaluated 130 ultrasound images from three healthy volunteers and the segmentation results were compared to the boundaries outlined by an expert. Preliminary results showed that the method described here could identify the contour of common carotid artery with satisfactory accuracy in this dataset.
Endocardial Border Detection Using Radial Search and Domain Knowledge Yong Chen; DongC Liu
TELKOMNIKA (Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control) Vol 12, No 1: March 2014
Publisher : Universitas Ahmad Dahlan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.12928/telkomnika.v12i1.11

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The ejection fraction rate is a frequently used parameter when treating patients who suffered from heart disease. However, the measurement of this ejection rate depends on manual segmentation of left ventricle cavity in the end-systolic and end-diastolic phases. This paper proposes a semi-automatic algorithm for the detection of left ventricular border in two dimensional long axis ultrasound echocardiographic images. First, we apply a preprocessing filter to the ultrasound for the sake of speckle reduction. Then the knowledge of the anatomical structure of human heart and local homogeneity of blood pool is being used to detect the border of left ventricle. The proposed method evaluates 80 ultrasound images from four healthy volunteers and the generated contours are compared with contours manually drawn by an expert. The measured Dice Metric and Hausdorff Distance recorded by the proposed algorithm are 85.1% ± 0.4% and 3.25 ± 0.46 mm respectively. The numerical results reported in this paper indicate that the proposed algorithm is able to correctly segment the left ventricle cavity and can be used as an alternative to manual contouring of left ventricle cavity from ultrasound images.