Importance Atherosclerosis Imaging and Treatment.- Carotid pathologies: type, incidence, and therapy.- Cardiovascular risk in subjects with carotid pathologies.- Noninvasive cerebrovascular risk assessment in presence of carotid lesions.- Histology and its correlation with instrumental measure.- Issues and Challenges in Ultrasound Vascular .- Despeckle Filtering of Ultrasound .- Review on Plaque Characterization and Carotid Imaging.- Signal Processing Approach to 2-D longitudinal and transverse B-Mode Carotid Images.- Plaque morphology and reconstruction.- The use of ultrasound contrast agents in plaque characterization.- IVUS.- CCA Segmentation.- MRI imaging of carotid lesions.- Carotid Stenosis Estimation in X-rays.- Fusion Techniques for CCA.- MR carotid Segmentation using Gibbs Model.- MR Stenosis Analysis.- carotid plaques by noninvasive imaging.- MR Plaque Characterization.- CT- Atherosclerosis Imaging.- Hemodynamics.- FEM for Carotid and Stroke Analysis.- Surgical intervention: stenting vs endarterectomy.- Drug Therapy and follow-up.- Clinical management and follow-up of patients with carotid disease.- Vaccinia virus, protein and atherosclerotic lesions.- Nanoparticle Based Atherosclerosis Mgt.- In Vivo Vibroacoustography for Vascular Artery and Veins.- SDUV technique for measuring mechanical properties of Plaqued Arteries.- Metabolomics in patients with carotid artery diseases.- Lipid Management in CCA.- Molecular Imaging of Atherosclerosis.- Biologic Nanoparticles in Atherosclerosis Diseases.