Atorvastatin effect evaluation based on feature combination of three-dimension ultrasound images

Yongkang Luo; Mingyue Ding

doi:10.1117/12.2216450

24 March 2016 Atorvastatin effect evaluation based on feature combination of three-dimension ultrasound images

Yongkang Luo, Mingyue Ding

Proceedings Volume 9785, Medical Imaging 2016: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 97853S (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216450
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

In the past decades, stroke has become the worldwide common cause of death and disability. It is well known that ischemic stroke is mainly caused by carotid atherosclerosis. As an inexpensive, convenient and fast means of detection, ultrasound technology is applied widely in the prevention and treatment of carotid atherosclerosis. Recently, many studies have focused on how to quantitatively evaluate local arterial effects of medicine treatment for carotid diseases. So the evaluation method based on feature combination was proposed to detect potential changes in the carotid arteries after atorvastatin treatment. And the support vector machine (SVM) and 10-fold cross-validation protocol were utilized on a database of 5533 carotid ultrasound images of 38 patients (17 atorvastatin groups and 21 placebo groups) at baseline and after 3 months of the treatment. With combination optimization of many features (including morphological and texture features), the evaluation results of single feature and different combined features were compared. The experimental results showed that the performance of single feature is poor and the best feature combination have good recognition ability, with the accuracy 92.81%, sensitivity 80.95%, specificity 95.52%, positive predictive value 80.47%, negative predictive value 95.65%, Matthew’s correlation coefficient 76.27%, and Youden’s index 76.48%. And the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was also performed well with 0.9663 of the area under the ROC curve (AUC), which is better than all the features with 0.9423 of the AUC. Thus, it is proved that this novel method can reliably and accurately evaluate the effect of atorvastatin treatment.

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Yongkang Luo and Mingyue Ding "Atorvastatin effect evaluation based on feature combination of three-dimension ultrasound images", Proc. SPIE 9785, Medical Imaging 2016: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 97853S (24 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216450

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