Despeckle Filtering for Multiscale Amplitude-Modulation Frequency-Modulation (AM-FM) Texture Analysis of Ultrasound Images of the Intima-Media Complex
Figure 1
Anatomical locations of the common carotid artery ultrasound image components at the far wall. The IMT is defined as the layer (band) which is comprised by the bands Z5 and Z6 as demonstrated in (a). The intima-media-complex (IMC) in (b) has been extracted using automated segmentation as described in [4, 24], where the IMTaver = 079 mm (between the bands Z5 and Z6, middle bar), = 0.8367 mm (left bar), = 0.6356 mm (right bar) and IMTmedian = 0.75 mm).
