Ultrasound signal quality parameterization for image-free evaluation of arterial stiffness.
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...The signal quality score was computed by considering the energy ratio and sharpness of the echoes recorded from both the proximal and distal walls of the artery [29]....
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...ultrasound echo and PPG signal were received in the digital domain, their signal quality determination [29], identification of the locations of arterial walls in the echo frame, tracking their...
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...experimentally validated in our previous study [29]....
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...Off-axis reflections have poor signal quality [20] that are automatically rejected by intelligent wall identification [11] and signal parametrization algorithms [21], reported by us earlier....
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...During the tracking phase, the signal quality of the acquired ultrasound echo signals was inspected continuously by an application-specific signal quality parameterization algorithm [8]....
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...We have demonstrated automated measurement algorithms [1-3, 7] and the signal quality evaluation algorithms [8] in a series of publications....
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...This check is done by set of methods based on measurement of ratio of energy of wall echoes to lumen echoes and analysis of sharpness of echoes [7]....
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