WO2012140147A3 - Processing ultrasound images - Google Patents

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WO2012140147A3
WO2012140147A3 PCT/EP2012/056691 EP2012056691W WO2012140147A3 WO 2012140147 A3 WO2012140147 A3 WO 2012140147A3 EP 2012056691 W EP2012056691 W EP 2012056691W WO 2012140147 A3 WO2012140147 A3 WO 2012140147A3
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Kevin Mcguinness
Sarah HUGHES
Niall MOYNA
Noel O'connor
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Abstract

A key indicator in the onset of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is abnormalities in the inner most layer of the arterial wall, i.e. the endothelial cell layer. Dysfunction of this endothelium is one of the earliest events in the development of CVD. Disclosed herein are inventive methods for processing an ultrasound image of a vascular tissue and an inventive method of segmenting the tissue for detecting sub abnormalities. The processing method entails: segmenting the ultrasound image into regions corresponding to vascular tissue lumen and vascular tissue; determining the diameter of the vascular tissue lumen at a plurality of points; determining an inter-percentile range of the plurality of diameters; and calculating a statistic of centre of the plurality of diameters from the inter-percentile range of the plurality of diameters.
PCT/EP2012/056691 2011-04-12 2012-04-12 Processing ultrasound images Ceased WO2012140147A2 (en)

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