Patent ID: 7927278
Filing Date: 2011-04-19
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. An automated method for obtaining vascular properties measurements from multiple, sequential ultrasound image frames, the method comprising: obtaining ultrasound images from a standardized region of a common carotid artery, the images characterized as a multiplicity of digitized sequential image frames taken over at least two cardiac cycles; storing the multiplicity of sequential frames; displaying a first digitized frame on a computer display; establishing an approximate boundary location of a first interface region of a portion of an arterial wall structure; establishing an approximate boundary location of a second interface region of the portion of the arterial wall structure; automatically identifying a first actual interface edge in a region proximate the boundary location of the first interface region; automatically identifying a second actual interface edge in a region proximate the boundary location of the second interface region; storing the first and second actual interface edges; displaying a subsequent digitized sequential frame on the display; and automatically establishing approximate boundary locations of the first and second interface regions of the subsequent frame on the basis of the automatically identified first and second actual interface edges of the first frame.