The informative exhibition of diagnostic imaging

Imaging is a critical tool in medical examination and diagnosis including radiology, pathology and so on. Three selected articles are introduced here to demonstrate the state-of-the-art quantitative image analysis developed for medicine. An international research group including Japan, USA, Spain, Italy, and Cyprus submitted “Automated segmental-IMT measurement in thin/thick plaque with bulb presence in carotid ultrasound from multiple scanners: Stroke risk assessment” [1] to standardize carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) measurement for stroke risk assessment. The fully automated bulb detection system combining carotid geometry and
pixel-classification achieved 92.67% precision which can be a reference marker for segmental-IMT. The research group integrated images from Japan, Italy and Hong Kong into a mixed database of 649 carotid artery ultrasound images. The well-designed architecture with precise calculation validated by multi-country data is promising in clinical application.