Increased speed of measuring muscle thickness

As of recently, an ultrasonography was used to measure muscle thickness, which allowed for research into muscle properties and functions. Ultrasonography, however, is time consuming when using the manual method, which was being used up until the investigation into Gabor Filtering and Multiscale Vessel Enhancement Filtering (MVEF). These techniques use a Revoting House Transform to exponentially enhance speed while measuring the muscles. The manual method was used as a control while the two novel methods were used to measure the gastrocnemius muscle. The results showed high comparability to the manual technique. These new methods will now be able to be used for measuring muscles and their functions as a high rate and decrease time wasted as a result of measuring using the manual method.

URL: http://www.biomedical-engineering-online.com/content/12/1/6/abstract