Nigerian journal of physiological sciences : official publication of the Physiological Society of Nigeria
30837766
There is paucity of information on the effects and mechanism of action of Nanosilver on vascular tone andendothelial function in spite of the upsurge in nanotechnology application in biomedicine. The present study determined theeffect of Nanosilver o...
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Atherosclerosis is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and stroke. Typically, atherosclerotic calcium is found during the mature stage of the atherosclerosis disease. It is therefore often a challenge to identify and ...
In portable, 3-D, and ultra-fast ultrasound imaging systems, there is an increasing demand for the reconstruction of high-quality images from a limited number of radio-frequency (RF) measurements due to receiver (Rx) or transmit (Xmit) event sub-samp...
Medical & biological engineering & computing
30302667
The manuscript describes an ultrasound image segmentation technique based on the fractional Brownian motion (FBM) model. Here, the ultrasound images are first enhanced using a fuzzy-based technique, and later the FBM model is employed to obtain the f...
PURPOSE OF THE REVIEW: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, autoimmune disease which may result in a higher risk of cardiovascular (CV) events and stroke. Tissue characterization and risk stratification of patients with rheumatoid arthritis are a ...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
31021759
As a widely used imaging modality in the medical field, ultrasound has been applied in community medicine, rural medicine, and even telemedicine in recent years. Therefore, the development of portable ultrasound devices has become a popular research ...
PURPOSE: This study sought to determine the feasibility of using Simultaneous Non-contrast Angiography and intraPlaque Hemorrhage (SNAP) to detect the lipid-rich/necrotic core (LRNC), and develop a machine learning based algorithm to segment plaque c...
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one killer in the USA, yet it is largely preventable (World Health Organization 2011). To prevent CVD, carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) imaging, a noninvasive ultrasonography method, has proven to be cl...
PURPOSE: Quantification of carotid plaques has been shown to be important for assessing as well as monitoring the progression and regression of carotid atherosclerosis. Various metrics have been proposed and methods of measurements ranging from manua...