Ultrasound is widely used as a routine antenatal screen for foetal abnormalities. It is highly operator-dependent and, occasionally, anatomical relationships are difficult to delineate in the presence of complex and complicated abnormalities. Foetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can play a significant diagnostic and prognostic role in these circumstances. We performed MRI examinations with a...

In the recent times, image segmentation plays a critical role in medical study for taking individual decisions by physicians. This technique attempts to estimate the structure of lumen and plague segmentation on the transverse view of B-mode ultrasound images of common carotid artery (CCA). The proposed method segments both the lumen and plague, whereas only the lumen is segmented in the conven...

AIMS The aim of this study was to evaluate the capability of intraoperative ultrasonography (IOUSG) in identifying malignant intraparenchymal tumors during surgical intervention. SETTINGS AND DESIGN Forty patients with intrinsic malignant tumors were evaluated by using IOUSG. MATERIALS AND METHODS A real-time ultrasound scanner with a 3- or 5-MHz transducer was used for this study in all ca...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Real-time compound ultrasound imaging is a new technique for improving the image quality of B-mode scanning. We investigated the value of this method for the characterization of atherosclerotic plaques in the internal carotid artery. METHODS Thirty-two patients (22 men, 10 women; mean age, 75 years) with plaques of the internal carotid artery as identified by high-resol...