Investigations on Plaque Deposition in Carotid Artery Ultrasound Images Using Computational Intelligence

Abstract

Stroke is a serious disability worldwide and is a long term disability which newlineshould be addressed deeply. There is an urgent need to improve diagnostic techniques of newlineatherosclerosis and stroke for plaque assessment, for which intima - media thickness is a newlinebiomarker. newlineThe objective of the work is to carry out a competitive denoising approach for newlinespeckle removal of the carotid artery image, develop a novel efficient hybrid newlinesegmentation technique for IMT detection and plaque characterization and to classify newlinethem as normal or abnormal with machine learning and deep learning techniques newline