An adaptive template-matching method and its application to the boundary detection of brachial artery ultrasound scans

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 399-408

  Fan, Liexiang ^a   Santago, Peter ^b   Riley, Ward ^b   Herrington, David M ^b  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive template matching; Flow mediated vasodilation; Ultrasound; Vascular wall

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; EDGE DETECTION; SCANNING;

VASODILATORS;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ADAPTATION; ADVENTITIA; ALGORITHM; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; INTIMA; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0035033657     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(00)00349-5     Document Type: Article

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