Association of automated carotid IMT measurement and HbA1c in Japanese patients with coronary artery disease

Accurate cloud-based smart IMT measurement, its validation and stroke risk stratification in carotid ultrasound: A web-based point-of-care tool for multicenter clinical trial

“…The system was capable of measuring cIMT ranging up to a 2.0 to 2.5 mm thickness (heavy plaque in the distal wall) based on advanced scale-space methods as developed by Suri's team. 3,11,13,58,59,60,54 In this study we have compared our proposed…”

“…Even though there are automated desktop-based intelligent cIMT systems by Suri (PI of this project) and his team, 9,11,13,14,30,48,49 this study is the first of its kind in which cIMT is measured in carotid ultrasound scans through intelligent cloud-computing, with automated analysis occurring in the cloud-based settings. The workflow is shown in Figure. 3.…”

“…Carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) is one of the most popular methods for monitoring CVD and predicting the occurrence of major adverse cardiovascular events. [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] Prediction of CVD has been tied to cIMT in the early studies in order to foresee cardiovascular events (CVE). Several studies have shown a relationship between threshold value of cIMT leading to CVD: (cIMT > 0.7 mm) 23 , (cIMT > 0.85 mm) 24 , (cIMT > 0.9 mm), 25,26 (cIMT > 1.0 mm) 27 , and (cIMT > 1.26 mm).…”

Relationship between Automated Coronary Calcium Volumes and a Set of Manual Coronary Lumen Volume, Vessel Volume and Atheroma Volume in Japanese Diabetic Cohort

“…The phenomenon suggests that in atherosclerotic human coronary arteries, lumen area remained constant until the percent stenosis exceeded 40% [28]. Saba L et al, evaluated the association of automated cIMT with HbA1c for CAD in a Japanese cohort [29]. An analysis was done on 370 patients and results clearly established a direct correlation (p=0.0007) between HbA1c and automated cIMT measurements.…”

Two Automated Techniques for Carotid Lumen Diameter Measurement: Regional versus Boundary Approaches

“…Recently Saba et al [45] has performed a comparative study of correlation between the carotid inter-adventitial diameter (IAD)/LD and the plaque score to predict the risk of stroke. Even though the plaque score has been correlated to IMT before [46], the novelty in this paper is the correlation of LD with the plaque score. The study by Saba et al [45] used the scale-space based automated lumen diameter measurement system to accurately measure the carotid LD/IAD.…”