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Automated analysis of Doppler ultrasound velocity flow diagrams
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Automated analysis of Doppler ultrasound velocity flow diagrams

Juerg TSCHIRREN, Ronald M LAUER and Milan SONKA
IEEE transactions on medical imaging, Vol.20(12), pp.1422-1425
2001
DOI: 10.1109/42.974936
PMID: 11811841

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Abstract

A highly automated method for the identification and quantization of maximum blood velocity curves from Doppler ultrasound flow diagrams is presented. The method uses an image processing scheme to analyze video-recorded image sequences of flow diagrams. The sequences are acquired, a sequence of images relating to chronological cardiac cycles is extracted, and a maximum blood velocity envelope is determined and quantified. The results are verified against hand-traced reference curves. Excellent correlation of r = 0.99 is achieved.
Cardiovascular System Ultrasonic investigative techniques Biological and medical sciences Investigative techniques, diagnostic techniques (general aspects) Medical sciences

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