%0 Journal Article
%T Ultrasound-based carotid stenosis measurement and risk stratification in diabetic cohort: a deep learning paradigm
%A Andrew Nicolaides
%A Elisa Cuadrado-Godia
%A Harman S. Suri
%A Jasjit S. Suri
%A John R. Laird
%A Klaudija Viskovic
%A Luca Saba
%A Mainak Biswas
%A N. N. Khanna
%A Vijay Viswanathan
%J SCIE-indexed Journal
%D 2019
%X Annually, 15 million people suffer from stroke worldwide. Amongst them, 5 million dies and the other five million are permanently disabled, thereby placing a heavy economic burden on their families and the nation (1). In the United States, the stroke figure stands at around 795,000 people annually, i.e., every 40 seconds one person suffers from stroke (2). The direct cost of medical care and treatment is approximately 33 billion United States dollars, and the indirect cost due to lost productivity is 20.6 billion United States dollars (1,2)
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