Paper Info
Title
Automated detection of skeletal muscle twitches from B-mode ultrasound images: An application to motor neuron disease
Abstract
The presence of involuntary muscle twitches is a diagnostic indicator of neurodegenerative diseases, such as motor neurone disease (MND), but current methods of twitch detection are invasive and pose potential risks to patients. We present a method by which standard B-mode ultrasound can be used to automatically identify muscle twitches similar to those found in patients with MND. The results of initial experimentation are presented, and we show that this technique can detect muscle twitches with a high degree of accuracy.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2012
Pattern Recognition
biomedical ultrasonics,diseases,image sequences,medical image processing,neurophysiology,object detection,statistical analysis,B-mode ultrasound images,MND,automated skeletal muscle twitch detection,automatic muscle twitch identification,diagnostic indicator,involuntary muscle twitch presence,motor neuron disease,neurodegenerative diseases,statistical measure
Field
DocType
ISSN
Object detection,Motor neuron,Neuroscience,Disease,B mode ultrasound,Motor neurone disease,Neurophysiology,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Skeletal muscle,Artificial intelligence,Ultrasound
Conference
1051-4651
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-2216-4
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Peter J. Harding141.88
Emma Hodson-Tole282.88
Ryan Cunningham31137.87
Ian Loram49811.31
Nicholas Costen522828.42
Hodson-Tole, E.F.600.34