An automatic measurement system for the evaluation of carotid intima-media thickness

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1684-1691

  Liguori, Consolatina ^a,b   Paolillo, Alfredo ^c   Pietrosanto, Antonio ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Boundary detection; Carotid plaque; Feature extraction; Image processing; Medical applications; Thickness measurements; Ultrasonic

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; CAROTID INTIMA MEDIA THICKNESS; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

BLOOD VESSELS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0035720717     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.982968     Document Type: Article

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