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

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(a) The extracted ROI after bilateral filtering. (b) Binary ROI segmented by threshold. (c) Binary ROI followed by dilation and erosion. (d) The estimated boundaries of LII and MAI. (e) The final boundaries of LII and MAI.

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