Comparison of Particle Swarm Optimization and Genetic Algorithm for Ultrasound Estimation of Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Using Matching Pursuit
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Abstract
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are one of the most dominant causes of death worldwide. Consequently, much attention has been given to CVD prevention by monitoring CVD risk factors. The intima-media thickness (IMT) of the carotid artery is widely recognized as a reliable indicator for CDV risk and can be monitored non-invasively using ultrasound. To reduce IMT estimation variability, many automatic algorithms that estimate IMT using B-mode ultrasound images have been proposed. The performance of B-mode image-based algorithms are often limited by the image resolution. M-mode or A-mode algorithms may be an alternative to B-mode approaches for lower resolution ultrasound data. Recently, matching pursuit (MP) signal decomposition with particle swarm optimization (PSO) was investigated for extracting the arterial tissue interface echoes used for IMT estimation using A-mode ultrasound signals. In this work, PSO was compared to the genetic algorithm (GA) for IMT estimation using MP. Both methods were evaluated on the frequency at which the arterial tissue interface echoes used for IMT estimation were successfully extracted, the time and number of computations required to decompose the ultrasound signals, and the variability in IMT estimates. Using the same search constraints and control parameters for both methods, the results showed that the MP algorithm with PSO was faster and required less computations than the one with the GA, but the GA resulted in more successful IMT estimates than PSO. No significant difference in IMT estimation variability was observed.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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