• Laser & Optoelectronics Progress
  • Vol. 59, Issue 10, 1017002 (2022)
Guodong Sun, Yunyu Shi*, and Xiang Liu
Author Affiliations
  • School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China
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    Guodong Sun, Yunyu Shi, Xiang Liu. Feature Extraction Algorithm Based on Carotid Artery Ultrasound Vessels[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2022, 59(10): 1017002 Copy Citation Text show less
    Flow chart of blood vessel extraction algorithm
    Fig. 1. Flow chart of blood vessel extraction algorithm
    Comparison of image filtering effect. (a) Original image; (b) bilateral filtered image; (c) median filtered image; (d) Frangi filtered image
    Fig. 2. Comparison of image filtering effect. (a) Original image; (b) bilateral filtered image; (c) median filtered image; (d) Frangi filtered image
    Ultrasound image standardization processing. (a) Before processing; (b) after processing
    Fig. 3. Ultrasound image standardization processing. (a) Before processing; (b) after processing
    Experiment results
    Fig. 4. Experiment results
    λ1λ2Image Feature
    L-HVessel wall (brightness)
    L+HBureaucratic blood (darkness)
    Table 1. Hessian matrix corresponding to image feature table
    Real situationPredicted result
    Positive sampleNegative sample
    Positive sampleTPFN
    Negative sampleFPTN
    Table 2. Confusion matrix
    Dataset sourceNumber of samples

    Recall /

    %

    Precision /

    %

    Total14781.389.3
    Shanghai Fengxian District Central Hospital6880.689.3
    Cyprus Neurological Institute7981.989.4
    Table 3. Statistics of blood vessel extraction results
    Guodong Sun, Yunyu Shi, Xiang Liu. Feature Extraction Algorithm Based on Carotid Artery Ultrasound Vessels[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2022, 59(10): 1017002
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