Automatic Characterization of the Physiological Condition of the Carotid Artery in 2D Ultrasound Image Sequences Using Spatiotemporal and Spatiospectral 2D Maps

Figure 13

Spatiotemporal wave representation for the elderly case E1 in Figure 12. The ECG signal is shown to the left (a) and the spatiotemporal 2D map is shown to the right (b). The longitudinal motion, across neighboring ROIs, is marked by white arrows on the spatiotemporal 2D map (c).

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