{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,28]],"date-time":"2025-10-28T17:56:24Z","timestamp":1761674184094},"reference-count":48,"publisher":"Springer Science and Business Media LLC","issue":"11","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2011,7,20]],"date-time":"2011-07-20T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1311120000000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/tdm"}],"content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Med Biol Eng Comput"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2011,11]]},"DOI":"10.1007\/s11517-011-0800-9","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2011,7,19]],"date-time":"2011-07-19T06:52:40Z","timestamp":1311058360000},"page":"1299-1310","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":18,"title":["Detection of the intima and media layer thickness of ultrasound common carotid artery image using efficient active contour segmentation technique"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"49","author":[{"given":"N.","family":"Santhiyakumari","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"P.","family":"Rajendran","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"M.","family":"Madheswaran","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"S.","family":"Suresh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2011,7,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"800_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Abolmaesumi P, Sirouspour M.R, Salcudean S.E (2000) Real-time extraction of carotid artery contours from ultrasound images. Comput Based Med Syst 181\u2013186","DOI":"10.1109\/CBMS.2000.856897"},{"key":"800_CR2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2426","DOI":"10.1161\/01.STR.31.10.2426","volume":"31","author":"D Baldassarre","year":"2000","unstructured":"Baldassarre D, Amato M, Bondioli A (2000) Carotid artery intima- media thickness measured by ultrasonography in normal clinical practice correlates well with atherosclerosis risk factors. Stroke 31:2426\u20132430","journal-title":"Stroke"},{"key":"800_CR3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1432","DOI":"10.1161\/01.CIR.96.5.1432","volume":"96","author":"ML Bots","year":"1997","unstructured":"Bots ML, Hoes AW, Koudstaal PJ, Hofman A, Grobbee DE (1997) Common carotid intima\u2014media thickness and risk of stroke and myocardial infarction: the Rotterdam Study. Circulation 96:1432\u20131437","journal-title":"Circulation"},{"key":"800_CR4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Bottalico MA, Starita A (2000) EcoStudio: a computer tool to support carotid ultrasound images analysis. IEEE Eng Med Biol 4:2428\u20132430","DOI":"10.1109\/IEMBS.2000.901290"},{"key":"800_CR5","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Ceccarelli M, Luca N. De, Morganella A (2006) An active contour approach to automatic detection of the intima-media thickness. In: Proceedings of international conference acoustics, speech and signal processing, vol 2. pp 709\u2013712","DOI":"10.1109\/ICASSP.2006.1660441"},{"issue":"5","key":"800_CR6","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"642","DOI":"10.1109\/42.640755","volume":"16","author":"V Chalana","year":"1997","unstructured":"Chalana V, Kim Y (1997) A methodology for evaluation of boundary detection algorithms on medical images. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 16(5):642\u2013652","journal-title":"IEEE Trans Med Imaging"},{"key":"800_CR7","first-page":"37","volume":"27","author":"RC Chan","year":"2000","unstructured":"Chan RC, Khaufhold J, Hemphill LC, Lees RS, Karl WC (2000) Anisotropic edge-preserving smoothing in carotid B-mode ultrasound for improved segmentation and intima-media thickness (IMT) measurement. Comput Cardiol 27:37\u201340","journal-title":"Comput Cardiol"},{"key":"800_CR8","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Chen Y, Medioni G (1995) Description of complex objects from multiple range images. IEEE Comput Vision Imag Underst 61(3):325\u2013334","DOI":"10.1006\/cviu.1995.1026"},{"key":"800_CR9","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"27","DOI":"10.1016\/S0169-2607(00)00149-8","volume":"67","author":"D Cheng","year":"2002","unstructured":"Cheng D, Schmidt-Trucksass A, Cheng K, Burkhardt H (2002) Using snakes to detect the intimal and adventitial layers of the common carotid artery wall in sonographic images. Comput Methods Programs Biomed 67:27\u201337","journal-title":"Comput Methods Programs Biomed"},{"key":"800_CR10","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Cinthio M, Jansson T, Eriksson A, Ahlgren AR, Persson HW, Lindstr\u00f6m K (2010) Evaluation of an algorithm for arterial lumen diameter measurements by means of ultrasound. Med Biol Eng Comput 48(11):1133\u201340. PMID: 20635222","DOI":"10.1007\/s11517-010-0660-8"},{"key":"800_CR11","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"689","DOI":"10.1161\/hs0302.103661","volume":"33","author":"LM Cupini","year":"2002","unstructured":"Cupini LM, Pasqualetti P, Diomedi M (2002) Carotid artery intima-media thickness and lacunar versus nonlacunar infarcts. Stroke 33:689\u2013694","journal-title":"Stroke"},{"key":"800_CR12","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"14","DOI":"10.1056\/NEJM199901073400103","volume":"340","author":"LO Dh","year":"1999","unstructured":"Dh LO, Polak JF, RA Kronmal (1999) Carotid-artery intima and media thickness as a risk factor for myocardial infarction and stroke in older adults. N Engl J Med 340:14\u201322","journal-title":"N Engl J Med"},{"issue":"6","key":"800_CR13","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"802","DOI":"10.1109\/42.544498","volume":"15","author":"V Dutt","year":"1996","unstructured":"Dutt V (1996) Adaptive speckle reduction filter for log compressed B-scan images. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 15(6):802\u2013813","journal-title":"IEEE Trans Med Imaging"},{"key":"800_CR14","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"841","DOI":"10.1161\/01.STR.30.4.841","volume":"30","author":"S Ebrahim","year":"1999","unstructured":"Ebrahim S, Papacosta O, Whincup P (1999) Carotid plaque, intima media thickness, cardiovascular risk factors and prevalent cardiovascular disease in men and women: the British regional heart study. Stroke 30:841\u2013850","journal-title":"Stroke"},{"issue":"6","key":"800_CR15","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1333","DOI":"10.1118\/1.599014","volume":"27","author":"JD Gill","year":"2000","unstructured":"Gill JD, Ladak HM, Steinman DA, Fenster A (2000) accuracy and variability assessment of semi-automatic technique for segmentation of the carotid arteries from 3D ultrasound images. Med Phys 27(6):1333\u20131342","journal-title":"Med Phys"},{"key":"800_CR16","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"567","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1365-2796.1994.tb00847.x","volume":"236","author":"DE Grobbee","year":"1994","unstructured":"Grobbee DE, Bots ML (1994) Carotid artery intima-media thickness as an indicator of generalized atherosclerosis. J Int Med 236:567\u2013573","journal-title":"J Int Med"},{"key":"800_CR17","first-page":"69","volume":"24","author":"T Gustavsson","year":"1997","unstructured":"Gustavsson T, Abu-Gharbieh R, Hamameh G, Liang Q (1997) Implementation and comparison of four different boundary detection algorithms for quantitative ultrasonic measurements of the human carotid artery. IEEE Comput Cardiol 24:69\u201372","journal-title":"IEEE Comput Cardiol"},{"issue":"10","key":"800_CR18","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"929","DOI":"10.1109\/34.58867","volume":"12","author":"JF Haddon","year":"1990","unstructured":"Haddon JF, Boyce JF (1990) Image segmentation by unifying region and boundary information. IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 12(10):929\u2013948","journal-title":"IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell"},{"key":"800_CR19","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Herrington D, Santago P, Joinson T (1991) Image processing and display of 3D intra-coronary ultrasound images. Comput Cardiol 349\u2013352","DOI":"10.1109\/CIC.1991.169117"},{"key":"800_CR20","unstructured":"Jegelevi\u010dius D, Luko\u0161evi\u010dius A (2002) Ultrasonic measurements of human carotid artery wall intima-media thickness. Ultragarsas 43\u201347"},{"key":"800_CR21","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Jin D, Wang Y (2007) Doppler ultrasound wall removal based on the spatial correlation of wavelet coefficients. Med Biol Eng Comput. 45(11):1105\u201311. PMID: 17684782","DOI":"10.1007\/978-3-540-36841-0_233"},{"key":"800_CR22","unstructured":"Krissian K (2004) Anisotropic diffusion of ultrasound constrained by speckle noise model. Technical report. Harvard Medical school"},{"key":"800_CR23","unstructured":"Krissian K, Vosburgh K, Kikinis R, Carl-Fredrik Westin (2004) Anisotropic diffusion of ultrasound constrained by speckle noise model. Lab. Math Imaging 1\u201310"},{"key":"800_CR24","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"273","DOI":"10.1136\/bmj.320.7230.273","volume":"320","author":"D Lamont","year":"2000","unstructured":"Lamont D, Parker L, White M, Unwin N (2000) Risk of cardiovascular disease measured by carotid intima-media thickness at age 49\u201351: life course study. BMJ 320:273\u2013278","journal-title":"BMJ"},{"key":"800_CR25","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"127","DOI":"10.1109\/42.836372","volume":"19","author":"Q Liang","year":"2000","unstructured":"Liang Q, Wendelhag I, Wikstrand J, Gustavsson T (2000) A multiscale dynamic programming procedure for boundary detection in ultrasonic artery images. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 19:127\u2013142","journal-title":"IEEE Trans Med Imaging"},{"issue":"6","key":"800_CR26","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1684","DOI":"10.1109\/19.982968","volume":"50","author":"C Liguori","year":"2001","unstructured":"Liguori C, Paolillo A, Pietrosanto A (2001) An automatic measurement system for the evaluation of carotid intima-media thickness. IEEE Trans Instrum Meas 50(6):1684\u20131691","journal-title":"IEEE Trans Instrum Meas"},{"key":"800_CR27","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1684","DOI":"10.1109\/19.982968","volume":"50","author":"C Liguori","year":"2001","unstructured":"Liguori C, Paolillo A, Pietrosant A (2001) An automatic measurement system for the evaluation of carotid intima-media thickness. IEEE Trans Instrum Meas 50:1684\u20131691","journal-title":"IEEE Trans Instrum Meas"},{"issue":"1","key":"800_CR28","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"35","DOI":"10.1007\/s11517-006-0140-3","volume":"45","author":"CP Loizou","year":"2007","unstructured":"Loizou CP, Pattichis CS, Pantziaris M, Tyllis T, Nicolaides A (2007) Snakes based segmentation of the common carotid artery intima media. Med Biolo Eng Comput 45(1):35\u201349","journal-title":"Med Biolo Eng Comput"},{"issue":"8","key":"800_CR29","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1961","DOI":"10.1118\/1.1287111","volume":"27","author":"F Mao","year":"2000","unstructured":"Mao F, Gill J, Downey D, Fenster A (2000) Segmentation of carotid artery in ultrasound images: method development and evaluation technique. Med Phys 27(8):1961\u20131970","journal-title":"Med Phys"},{"key":"800_CR30","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Molinari F, Rajendra Acharya U, Zeng G, Meiburger KM, Suri JS (2011) Completely automated robust edge snapper for carotid ultrasound IMT measurement on a multi-institutional database of 300 images. Med Biol Eng Comput 2011 Apr 21. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 21509593","DOI":"10.1007\/s11517-011-0781-8"},{"key":"800_CR31","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Santhiyakumari. N, Rajendran. P, Madheswaran M (2010) Medical decision-making system of ultrasound carotid artery intima\u2013media thickness using neural networks. J Digit Imaging. doi: 10.1007\/s10278-010-9356-8 . Published Online First\u2122, 23 December 2010","DOI":"10.1007\/s10278-010-9356-8"},{"key":"800_CR32","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1399","DOI":"10.1161\/01.CIR.74.6.1399","volume":"74","author":"P Pignoli","year":"1986","unstructured":"Pignoli P, Tremoli E, Poli A, Paoletti A (1986) Intimal plus medial thickness of the arterial wall: a direct measurement with ultrasound imaging. Circulation 74:1399\u20131406","journal-title":"Circulation"},{"issue":"4","key":"800_CR33","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"353","DOI":"10.1007\/s11517-007-0279-6","volume":"46","author":"K Polat","year":"2008","unstructured":"Polat K, Latifoglu F, Kara S, G\u00fcnes S (2008) Usage of a novel, similarity-based weighting method to diagnose atherosclerosis from carotid artery Doppler signals. Med Biol Eng Comput 46(4):353\u2013362","journal-title":"Med Biol Eng Comput"},{"key":"800_CR34","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"233","DOI":"10.1016\/0734-189X(88)90022-9","volume":"41","author":"PK Sahoo","year":"1988","unstructured":"Sahoo PK, Soltani S, Wong KC, Chen YC (1988) A survey of thresholding techniques. Comput Vision, Graphics, and Image Process 41:233\u2013260","journal-title":"Comput Vision, Graphics, and Image Process"},{"issue":"II","key":"800_CR35","first-page":"1156","volume":"87","author":"JT Salonen","year":"1993","unstructured":"Salonen JT, Salonen R (1993) Ultrasound B-mode imaging in observational studies of atherosclerotic progression. Circulation 87(II):1156\u20131165","journal-title":"Circulation"},{"key":"800_CR36","unstructured":"Santhiyakumari N, Madheswaran M (2006) Estimation of layer thickness of arterio carotis using dynamic programming procedure. In: Proceedings of 3rd cairo international biomedical engineering conference. IP2, vol 4. pp 1\u20134"},{"key":"800_CR37","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"183","DOI":"10.1007\/s11760-007-0048-x","volume":"2","author":"N Santhiyakumari","year":"2008","unstructured":"Santhiyakumari N, Madheswaran M (2008) Non-Invasive evaluation of carotid artery wall thickness using Improved dynamic programming technique. Signal, Image and Video Process J (Springer) 2:183\u2013193","journal-title":"Signal, Image and Video Process J (Springer)"},{"key":"800_CR38","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Santhiyakumari N, Madheswran M (2007) Extraction of intima- media layer of arteria- carotis and evaluation of its thickness using active contour approach. In: Proceedings of international conference on intelligent and advanced systems. IP_MS1 582-586","DOI":"10.1109\/ICIAS.2007.4658454"},{"issue":"2","key":"800_CR39","first-page":"121","volume":"1","author":"N Santhiyakumari","year":"2009","unstructured":"Santhiyakumari N, Madheswran M (2009) Analysis of atherosclerosis for identification of cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases using active contour segmentation of carotid artery. Int J Bio Med Eng Consumer Health Inform 1(2):121\u2013125","journal-title":"Int J Bio Med Eng Consumer Health Inform"},{"key":"800_CR40","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"56","DOI":"10.1161\/01.HYP.0000077983.66161.6F","volume":"42","author":"Hernandez SAR","year":"2003","unstructured":"SAR Hernandez, Kroon AA, MPJ Van Boxtel (2003) Is there a side predilection for cerebrovascular disease? Hypertension 42:56\u201360","journal-title":"Hypertension"},{"key":"800_CR41","first-page":"105","volume":"11","author":"M Se\u00e7il","year":"2005","unstructured":"Se\u00e7il M, Altay C, G\u00fclc\u00fc A, \u00c7e\u00e7e H, G\u00f6ktay AY, Dicle O (2005) Automated measurement of intima-media thickness of carotid arteries in ultrasonography by computer software. Diagn Interv Radiol 11:105\u2013108","journal-title":"Diagn Interv Radiol"},{"issue":"7","key":"800_CR42","first-page":"19","volume":"17","author":"MG Veller","year":"1993","unstructured":"Veller MG, Fisher CM, Nicolaides AN (1993) Measurement of the ultrasonic intima-media complex thickness in normal subjects. J Vasc Surg 17(7):19\u201325","journal-title":"J Vasc Surg"},{"key":"800_CR43","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2195","DOI":"10.1161\/01.STR.28.11.2195","volume":"28","author":"I Wendelhag","year":"1997","unstructured":"Wendelhag I, Liang Q, Gustavsson T, Wikstrand J (1997) A new automated computerized analysing system simplifies reading and reduces the variability in ultrasound measurement of intima media thickness. Stroke 28:2195\u20132200","journal-title":"Stroke"},{"issue":"6","key":"800_CR44","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"910","DOI":"10.1109\/42.746624","volume":"17","author":"JE Wilhjelm","year":"1998","unstructured":"Wilhjelm JE, Gronholdt ML, Wiebe B, Jespersen SK, Hansen LK, Sillesen H (1998) Quantitative analysis of ultrasound B-mode images of carotid atherosclerotic plaque: correlation with visual classification and histological examination. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 17(6):910\u2013922","journal-title":"IEEE Trans Med Imaging"},{"key":"800_CR45","first-page":"1717","volume":"2","author":"H Xiaohui","year":"2000","unstructured":"Xiaohui H, Bruce C, Pislaru C, Greenleaf JF (2000) A novel region growing method for segmenting ultrasound images. IEEE Ultrason Symp 2:1717\u20131720","journal-title":"IEEE Ultrason Symp"},{"issue":"3","key":"800_CR46","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"359","DOI":"10.1109\/83.661186","volume":"7","author":"C Xu","year":"1998","unstructured":"Xu C, Prince JL (1998) Snakes, shapes and gradient vector flow. IEEE Trans Image Process 7(3):359\u2013369","journal-title":"IEEE Trans Image Process"},{"issue":"11","key":"800_CR47","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1260","DOI":"10.1109\/TIP.2002.804276","volume":"11","author":"Y Yu","year":"2002","unstructured":"Yu Y, Acton ST (2002) Speckle reducing anisotropic diffusion. IEEE Trans Image Process 11(11):1260\u20131270","journal-title":"IEEE Trans Image Process"},{"key":"800_CR48","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1335","DOI":"10.1016\/0031-3203(95)00169-7","volume":"29","author":"YJ Zhang","year":"1996","unstructured":"Zhang YJ (1996) A survey on evaluation methods for image segmentation. Pattern Recognit 29:1335\u20131346","journal-title":"Pattern Recognit"}],"container-title":["Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/content\/pdf\/10.1007\/s11517-011-0800-9.pdf","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11517-011-0800-9\/fulltext.html","content-type":"text\/html","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/content\/pdf\/10.1007\/s11517-011-0800-9","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2019,6,12]],"date-time":"2019-06-12T23:44:02Z","timestamp":1560383042000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/10.1007\/s11517-011-0800-9"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2011,7,20]]},"references-count":48,"journal-issue":{"issue":"11","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2011,11]]}},"alternative-id":["800"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11517-011-0800-9","relation":{},"ISSN":["0140-0118","1741-0444"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0140-0118","type":"print"},{"value":"1741-0444","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2011,7,20]]}}}