A Novel Preprocessing Method for Common Carotid Artery Ultrasound Images Based on Phase Asymmetry Metric and Non-subsampled Shearlet Transform
Published online on May 13, 2026
Abstract
Ultrasonic Imaging, Ahead of Print.
The intima media thickness (IMT) of the common carotid artery (CCA) is helpful for the diagnosis of atherosclerosis. The CCA ultrasound image segmentation methods can be used for the IMT measurements. However, the speckle noise and the blurred edges can ...
The intima media thickness (IMT) of the common carotid artery (CCA) is helpful for the diagnosis of atherosclerosis. The CCA ultrasound image segmentation methods can be used for the IMT measurements. However, the speckle noise and the blurred edges can ...