Evidence map›Paper›PMID 35161631›Full record

ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

FRDD-Net: Automated Carotid Plaque Ultrasound Images Segmentation Using Feature Remapping and Dense Decoding.

Yanhan Li, Lian Zou, Li Xiong, Fen Yu, Hao Jiang, Cien Fan, Mofan Cheng, Qi Li

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. MHAHF-UNet: a multi-scale hybrid attention hierarchy fusion network for carotid artery segmentation.International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery · 2025
    Article
  3. Review
  4. Article
  5. Review
  6. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Yanhan LiElectronic Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1485-378X
Lian ZouElectronic Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.
Li XiongCardiovascular Ultrasound Department, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China.
Fen YuDepartment of Ultrasound, Central Hospital of Wuhan, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430014, China.
Hao JiangElectronic Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.
Cien FanElectronic Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.
Mofan ChengElectronic Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.
Qi LiElectronic Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.

Funding

Science, Technology and Innovation Seed Fund of Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University znpy2019089
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Automated segmentation and evaluation of carotid plaques ultrasound images is of great significance for the diagnosis and early intervention of high-risk groups of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. However, it remains challenging to develop such solutions due to the relatively low quality of ultrasound images and heterogenous characteristics of carotid plaques. To address those problems, in this paper, we propose a novel deep convolutional neural network, FRDD-Net, with an encoder-decoder architecture to automatically segment carotid plaques. We propose the feature remapping modules (FRMs) and incorporate them into the encoding and decoding blocks to ameliorate the reliability of acquired features. We also propose a new dense decoding mechanism as part of the decoder, thus promoting the utilization efficiency of encoded features. Additionally, we construct a compound loss function to train our network to further enhance its robustness in the face of numerous cases. We train and test our network in multiple carotid plaque ultrasound datasets and our method yields the best performance compared to other state-of-the-art methods. Further ablation studies consistently show the advancement of our proposed architecture.

Indexed as

Image Processing, Computer-AssistedPlaque, AtheroscleroticHumansNeural Networks, ComputerReproducibility of ResultsUltrasonographycarotid plaquesdeep convolutional neural networksencoder–decodersegmentationultrasound

Identifiers

PMID35161631
PMCPMC8838852

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.