Research Article

An Improved Approach for Accurate and Efficient Measurement of Common Carotid Artery Intima-Media Thickness in Ultrasound Images

Table 2

Comparison with previous researches.

Previous researchesMean IMT biasProcessing timeAutomatic

Menchon-Lara et al. (2014) [21]600.64 ± 0.19 mm3.44 sYes
Molinari et al. (2012) [17]3650.078 ± 0.112 mm<15 sYes
Petroudi et al. (2012) [19]1000.095 ± 0.0615 mm21 sYes
Xu et al. (2012) [14]500.0381 ± 0.0164 mm0.43 sNo
Our approach1000.0231 ± 0.0348 mm0.32 sYes