Carotid Artery Detection in B-Mode Ultrasound Images Based on Convolution Neural Network Single Shot Multibox Detector

Abstract

Detection of vascular areas (blood vessels) using B-Mode ultrasound images is needed for automatic applications such as registration and navigation in medical operations. This study developed the detection of the carotid artery area using Convolution Neural Network Single Shot Network Multibox Detector (SSD) to determine the bounding box ROI of the carotid artery area in B-mode ultrasound images. The data used are B-Mode ultrasound images on the neck that contain the carotid artery area (primary data). SSD method result is 95% of accuracy which is higher than the Hough transformation method, Ellipse method, and Faster RCNN in detecting carotid artery area in the B-Mode ultrasound image. The use of image enhancement with Gaussian filter, histogram equalization, and Median filters in this method can increase detection accuracy. The best process time of the proposed method is 2.09 seconds so that it can be applied in a real-time system.

Keywords

• deteksi objek
• arteri karotis
• ultrasound b-mode
• convolutional neural network
• single shot multibox detektor