Diagnostic and Healing Ultrasound has recently taken an explosive development for much better much safer, financial, mobile and high quality health care. This technology is really appealing for medical applications due to the fact that it is non-ionizing, non-invasive and it is offered in most of the medical and scientific centers. Its low expense, when compared with other medical image modalities, makes it among the preferred tools for medical monitoring, follow-up and diagnosis. Besides the traditional fields of Cardiology and Obstetrics, where it is extensively utilized for very long time, it has ended up being likewise extremely helpful in the medical diagnosis of illness of the prostate, liver and coronaries and carotids atherosclerosis. Nevertheless, Ultrasound images present poor quality, really low signal to sound ratio and a lot of artifacts. The extraction of beneficial information from Ultrasound information for diagnosis is a challenge task that makes this medical image method an extremely active field of research. The difficulties are being conquered and novel and innovative techniques are being proposed for detection, characterization and segmentation of abnormalities in a number of organs. In reality, Ultrasound application variety is large, covering nearly all organs of the human body, including the brain where Tran-cranial Doppler Ultrasound is very essential to evaluate the brain vasculature. This book presents some of the current advances in Ultrasound imaging technology covering a number of organs and techniques in a Biomedical Engineering (BME) point of view. The focus of the book is in the algorithms, methods and systems developed by multidisciplinary research teams of engineers and physicians for Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) purposes. Cardiovascular and Cancer, the most common life-threatening diseases in western countries, are 2 of the most crucial subjects focused in the book. Other sophisticated issues are also presented such as Intravascular Ultrasound, 3D US and Ultrasound in Computer-Aided Surgical Treatment (CAS). Some chapters are direct contributions from medical research groups where Ultrasound has actually likewise received fantastic attention in the last decade. By this, new methods based upon Ultrasound were introduced in the medical practice for diagnosis and therapeutics, primarily in medical facility centers.
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