Contrast U-Net driven by sufficient texture extraction for carotid plaque detection

• Published in: Mathematical biosciences and engineering : MBE Vol. 20; no. 9; pp. 15623 - 15640
• Main Authors: Zhou, WenJun, Wang, Tianfei, He, Yuhang, Xie, Shenghua, Luo, Anguo, Peng, Bo, Yin, Lixue
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: AIMS Press 01.01.2023
• Subjects: carotid plaque; contrast block; contrast u-net; semantic segmentation; texture information

Ischemic heart disease or stroke caused by the rupture or dislodgement of a carotid plaque poses a huge risk to human health. To obtain accurate information on the carotid plaque characteristics of patients and to assist clinicians in the determination and identification of atherosclerotic areas, wh...