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© 2012

Ultrasound Imaging

Advances and Applications

  • Joao Miguel Sanches
  • Andrew F. Laine
  • Jasjit S. Suri
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xi
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  2. Image Formation and Preprocessing

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. RF Ultrasound Estimation from B-Mode Images
      José Seabra, João Miguel Sanches
      Pages 3-24
    3. A Rayleigh Mixture Model for IVUS Imaging
      José Seabra, Francesco Ciompi, Petia Radeva, João Miguel Sanches
      Pages 25-47
    4. Ultrasound Despeckle Methods
      Simone Balocco, Carlo Gatta, Josepa Mauri Ferré, Petia Radeva
      Pages 49-71
    5. Ultrasound Speckle/Despeckle Image Decomposition for Tissue Analysis
      José Seabra, João Miguel Sanches
      Pages 73-95

  3. Ultrasound Plaque Imaging

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 97-97
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    2. Media and Intima Thickness and Texture Analysis of the Common Carotid Artery
      Christos P. Loizou, Marios Pantzaris, Constantinos S. Pattichis
      Pages 99-128
    3. CAUDLES-EF: Carotid Automated Ultrasound Double Line Extraction System Using Edge Flow
      Filippo Molinari, Kristen M. Meiburger, Guang Zeng, Andrew Nicolaides, Jasjit S. Suri
      Pages 129-162
    4. Activity Index: A Tool to Identify Active Carotid Plaques
      Luís Mendes Pedro, Isabel Gonçalves, Ruy Fernandes e Fernandes, José Seabra, João Miguel Sanches, José Fernandes e Fernandes
      Pages 163-175
    5. Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaque Characterization By Intravascular Ultrasound
      Francesco Ciompi, Oriol Pujol, Josepa Mauri Ferré, Petia Radeva
      Pages 177-201
    6. Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Plaque Characterization
      José Seabra, Jasjit S. Suri, João Miguel Sanches
      Pages 203-221

  4. Ultrasound Advanced Applications

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 223-223
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    2. Real-Time 4D Cardiac Segmentation by Active Geometric Functions
      Qi Duan, Andrew F. Laine, Jasjit S. Suri
      Pages 225-253
    3. Classification and Staging of Chronic Liver Disease Based on Ultrasound, Laboratorial, and Clinical Data
      Ricardo Ribeiro, Rui Tato Marinho, Jasjit S. Suri, João Miguel Sanches
      Pages 255-282
    4. Assessment of Bone Healing Using Ultrasound
      Hasan Al-Nashash, Nasser N. Qaddoumi
      Pages 283-297
    5. Image-Guided Cryoablation of the Prostate
      Sutchin R. Patel, Gyan Pareek, Jasjit S. Suri
      Pages 299-311
    6. Applications of Multiscale Overcomplete Wavelet-Based Representations in Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) Images
      Amin Katouzian, Elsa Angelini, Bernhard Sturm, Elisa Konofagou, Stephane G. Carlier, Andrew F. Laine
      Pages 313-336
  5. Erratum To: Real-Time 4D Cardiac Segmentation by Active Geometric Functions
    Qi Duan, Andrew F. Laine, Jasjit S. Suri
    Pages E1-E1
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 337-360
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About this book

Introduction

Ultrasound Imaging: Advances and Applications presents some of the recent advances in Ultrasound imaging technology covering several organs and techniques in a Biomedical Engineering (BME) perspective. The focus of the book is in the algorithms, methodologies and systems developed by multidisciplinary research teams of engineers and physicians for Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) purposes.

Cardiovascular and Cancer, the most common life-threatening diseases in western countries, are two of the most important topics focused in the book. However, other advanced issues are also presented such as Intravascular Ultrasound, 3D US and Ultrasound in Computer-Aided Surgery (CAS).  Some chapters are direct contributions from medical research groups where Ultrasound has also received great attention in the last decade. By this, new techniques based on Ultrasound were introduced in the clinical practice for diagnosis and therapeutics, mainly in hospital facilities.

Editors and affiliations

  • Joao Miguel Sanches
    • 1
  • Andrew F. Laine
    • 2
  • Jasjit S. Suri
    • 3
  1. 1.Institute for Systems and RoboticsInstituto Superior Técnico Institute for Systems and RoboticsLisboaPortugal
  2. 2.Department of Biomedical EngineeringColumbia UniversityNew YorkUSA
  3. 3.RosevilleUSA

About the editors

J. Miguel Sanches is from the new Department of Bioengineering at the Instituto Superior Técnico / Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, where he teaches in the area of signal processing and control. His research activity is in Biomedical Engineering, mainly, in image reconstruction and analysis of biological and medical imaging for computer aided diagnosis (CAD) purposes.

Andrew F. Laine is a Director of the Heffner Biomedical Imaging Laboratory in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University in New York City and is Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology (Physics). His research inter­ests include quantitative image analysis; cardiac functional imaging: ultrasound and MRI, retinal imaging, intravascular imaging and biosignal processing. He is a Fellow of AIMBE and IEEE.

Dr. Jasjit S. Suri is an innovator, scientist, a visionary, an industrialist and an internation­ally known world leader in Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Suri has spent over 20 years in the field of biomedical engineering/devices and its management. He received his Doctorate from University of Washington, Seattle and Business Management Sciences from Weatherhead, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

Bibliographic information

  • Book Title Ultrasound Imaging
  • Book Subtitle Advances and Applications
  • Editors Joao Miguel Sanches
    Andrew F. Laine
    Jasjit S. Suri
  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1180-2
  • Copyright Information Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
  • Publisher Name Springer, Boston, MA
  • eBook Packages Biomedical and Life Sciences Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
  • Hardcover ISBN 978-1-4614-1179-6
  • Softcover ISBN 978-1-4899-9793-7
  • eBook ISBN 978-1-4614-1180-2
  • Edition Number 1
  • Number of Pages XI, 360
  • Number of Illustrations 59 b/w illustrations, 74 illustrations in colour
  • Topics Biomedicine, general
    Ultrasound
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