REFERENCES

Aggarwal, J. K. , & Nandhakumar, N. (1988). On the computation of motion from sequences of images - A review. Proceedings of the IEEE, 76(8), 917-935.

Amini, A. A. , & Duncan, J. S. (1992). Bending and stretching models for LV wall motion analysis from curves and surfaces. Image and Vision Computing, 10(6), 418-430.

Anderson, T. , & McDicken, W. N. (1999). Measurement of tissue motion. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 213(3), 181-191.

Angelini, E. D. , Homma, S. , Pearson, G. , Holmes, J. W. , & Laine, A. F. (2005). Segmentation of real-time three-dimensional ultrasound for quantification of ventricular function: A clinical study on right and left ventricles. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 31(9), 1143-1158.

Bang, J. , Dahl, T. , Bruinsma, A. , Kaspersen, J. H. , Hernes, T. A. N. , & Myhre, H. O. (2003). A new method for analysis of motion of carotid plaques from rf ultrasound images. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 29(7), 967-976.

Benayoun, S. , & Ayache, N. (1998). Dense nonrigid motion estimation in sequences of medical images using differential constraints. International Journal of Computer Vision, 26(1), 25-40.

Chan, K. L. (1993). Two approaches to motion analysis of the ultrasound image sequence of carotid atheromatous plaque. Ultrasonics, 31(12), 117-123.

Cinthio, M. , Ahlgren, A. R. , Jansson, J. T. , Eriksson, A. , Persson, H. W. , & Lindström, K. (2005). Evaluation of an ultrasonic echo-tracking method for measurements of arterial wall movements in two dimensions. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, 52(8), 1300-1311.

Cinthio, M. , Ahlgren, A. R. , Bergkvist, J. , Jansson, T, Persson H. W. , & Lindström, K. (2006). Longitudinal movements and resulting shear strain of the arterial wall. American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, 291(1), H394-H402.

Crum, W. R. , Hartkens, T. , & Hill D. L. (2004). Non-rigid image registration: theory and practice. British Journal of Radiology, 77(2), S140-S153.

Dahl, T. , Bang, J. , Ushakova, A. , Lydersen, S. , & Myhre, H. O. (2004). Parameters describing motion in carotid artery plaques from ultrasound examination: a reproducibility study. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 30(9), 1133-1143.

Dineley, J. , Meagher, S. , Poepping, T. L. , McDicken, W. N. , Hoskins, P. R. (2006). Design and characterisation of a wall motion phantom. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 32(9), 1349-1357.

Dufaux, F. , & Moscheni, F. (1995). Motion estimation techniques for digital TV: a review and a new contribution. Proceeding of the IEEE, 83(6), 858-876.

Edler, I. , & Hertz, C. H. (1954). The use of ultrasonic reflectoscope for the continuous recording of the movements of heart walls. Kungl Fysiografiska Sällskapets i Lund Förhandlingar, 24(5), 1-19.

Falk, E. , Shah, P. K. , & Fuster, V. (1995). Coronary plaque disruption. Circulation, 92(3), 657-671.

Frangi, A. F. , Niessen, W. J. , & Viergever, M. A. (2001). Three-dimensional modeling for functional analysis of cardiac images: a review. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 20(1), 2-25.

Gérard, O. , Billon, A. C. , Rouet, J. M. , Jacob, M. , Fradkin, M. , & Allouche, C. (2005). Efficient model-based quantification of left ventricular function in 3-D echocardiography. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 21(9), 1059-1068.

Glasbey, C. A. , & Madria, K. V. (1998). A review of image-warping methods Journal of Applied Statistics, 25(2), 155-171.

Golemati, S. , Sassano, A. , Lever, M. J. , Bharath, A. A. , Dhanjil, S. , Nicolaides, A. N. (2003). Motion analysis of carotid atherosclerotic plaque from B-mode ultrasound. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 29(3), 387-399.

Golemati, S. , Stoitsis, J. , Sifakis E. G. , Balkizas, T. , & Nikita K. S. (2007). Using the Hough Transform to segment ultrasound images of longitudinal and transverse sections of the carotid artery. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 33(12), 1918-1932.

J Magn Reson Imag (1999). Special issue: Cardiovascular MRI, 10(5).

Ledesma-Carbayo, M. J. , Kybic, J. , Desco, M. , Santos, A. , Sühling, M. , Hunziker, P. , & Unser, M. (2005). Spatio-temporal nonrigid registration for ultrasound cardiac motion estimation. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 24(9), 1113-1126.

Lee, K. W. , Wood, N. B. , & Xu, X. Y. (2004). Ultrasound image-based computer model of a common carotid artery with a plaque. Medical Engineering Physics, 26(10), 823-840.

Lee, R. T. , & Libby, P. (1997). The unstable atheroma. Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis Vascular Biology, 17(10), 1859-1867.

Maintz, J. B. A. , & Viergever, M. A. (1998). A survey of medical image registration. Medical Image Analysis, 2(1), 1-36.

Manduca, A. , Oliphant, T. E. , Dresner, M. A. , Mahowald, J. L. , Kruse, S. A. , Amromin, E. , Felmlee, J. P. , Greenleaf, J. F. , & Ehman, R. L. (2001). Magnetic resonance elastography: non-invasive mapping of tissue elasticity. Medical Image Analysis, 5(4), 237-254.

McInerney, T. , & Terzopoulos, D. (1996). Deformable models in medical image analysis: a survey. Medical Image Analysis, 1(2), 91-108.

McIsaac, A. I. , Thomas, J. D. , & Topol, E. J. (1993). Toward the quiescent coronary plaque. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 22(4), 1228-1241.

Mc Veigh, E. R. (1996). MRI of myocardial function: motion tracking techniques. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 14(2), 137-150.

Meairs, S. , & Hennerici, M. (1999). Four-dimensional ultrasonographic characterization of plaque surface motion in patients with symptomatic and asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis. Stroke, 30(9), 1807-1813.

Mokhtari-Dizajl, M. , Montazeri, M. , & Saberi, H. (2006). Differentiation of mild and severe stenosis with motion estimation in ultrasound images. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 32(10), 1493-1498.

Müller, A. , Neitmann, A. , Merkle, N. , Wohrle, J. , Hombach, V. , & Kestler, H. A. (2005). Contour detection of short axis slice MR images for contraction irregularity assessment. Computers in Cardiology, 32, 21-24.

Nash, J. M. , Carter, J. N. , & Nixon, M. S. (1997). Dynamic feature extraction via the velocity Hough transform. Pattern Recognition Letters, 18, 1035-1047.

Nelson, T. R. , Downey, D. B. , Pretorius, D. H. , & Fenster, A. (1999). Three-dimensional Ultrasound. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincot, Williams & Wilkins.

Nevo, S. T. , van Stralen, M. , Vossepoel, A. M. , Reiber, J. H. C. , de Jong, N. , van der Oteen, A. F. W. , & Bosch, J. G. (2007). Automated tracking of the mitral valve annulus motion in apical echocardiographic images using multidimensional dynamic programming. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 33(9), 1389-1399.

Ophir, J. , Alam, S. K. , Garra, B. , Kallel, F. , Konofagou, E. E. , Krouskop, T. , & Varghese, T. (1999). Elastography: ultrasonic estimation and imaging of the elastic properties of tissues. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 213(3), 203-233.

Sühling, M. , Jansen, C. , Arigovindan, M. , Buser, P. , Marsch, P. , Unser, M. , & Hunziker, P. (2004). Multiscale motion mapping - A novel computer vision technique for quantitative, objective echocardiography motion measurement independent of Doppler - First clinical description and validation. Circulation, 110(19), 3093-3099.

Tropea, B. I. , Schwarzacher, S. P. , Chang, A. , Asvar, C. , Huie, P. , Sibley, R. K. , & Zarins, C. K. (2000). Reduction of aortic wall motion inhibits hypertension-mediated experimental atherosclerosis. Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis Vascular Biology, 20(9), 2127-2133.

Van der Geest, R. J. , Buller, V. G. , Jansen, E. , Lamb, H. J. , Baur, L. H. , van der Wall, E. E. , de Roos, A. , & Reiber, J. H. C. (1997). Comparison between manual and semiautomated analysis of left ventricular volume parameters from short-axis MR images. Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, 21(5), 756-765.

Van der Geest, R. J. , & Reiber, J. H. C. (1999). Quantification in cardiac MRI. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 10(5), 602-608.

Van Stralen, M. , Leung, K. Y. E. , Voormolen, M. M. , de Jong, N. , van der Steen, A. F. W. , Reiber, J. H. C. , & Bosch, J. G. (2008). Time continuous detection of the left ventricular long axis and the mitral valve plane in 3-D echocardiography. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 34(2), 196-207.

Yu, C. M. , Sanderson, J., E. , Marwick, T. H. , & Oh, J. K. (2007). Tissue Doppler imaging-A new prognosticator for cardiovascular diseases. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 49(9), 1903-1914.

World Health Organization website, www.who.int/ncd/cvd.

Zagrodsky, V. , Walimbe, V. , Castro-Pareja, C. R. , Qin, J. X. , Song, J. M. , & Shekhar, R. (2005). Registration-assisted segmentation of real-time 3-D echocardiographic data using deformable models. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 24(9), 1089-1099.