Paper Title
A Study Of Common Carotid Artery Behavior From B-Mode Ultrasound Image For Different Gender And Bmi Categories
Abstract
The increment thickness of intima-media thickness (IMT) which involves the changes of diameter of the carotid
artery is one of the early symptoms of the atherosclerosis lesion. The manual measurement of arterial diameter is time
consuming and lack of reproducibility. Thus, this study reports the automatic approach to find the arterial diameter behavior
for different gender, and body mass index (BMI) categories, focus on tracked region. BMI category is divided into
underweight, normal, and overweight categories. Canny edge detection is employed to the B-mode image to extract the
important information to be deal as the carotid wall boundary. The result shows the significant difference of arterial diameter
between male and female groups which is 2.5% difference. In addition, the significant result of differences of arterial diameter
for BMI category is the decreasing of arterial diameter proportional to the BMI.
Index Terms- B-mode Ultrasound Image, carotid artery diameter, canny edge detection, body mass index.