Using snakes to detect the intimal and adventitial layers of the common carotid artery wall in sonographic images

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 27-37

  Cheng, Da chuan ^a,c   Schmidt Trucksäss, Arno ^b   Cheng, Kuo sheng ^a   Burkhardt, Hans ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active contour; Common carotid artery; Edge detection; Intima media layer; Snake

Indexed keywords

BIOFILTERS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

COMMON CAROTID ARTERY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ADVENTITIA; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; DEVICE; ECHOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON;

ALGORITHMS; CAROTID ARTERIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 0036139071     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2607(00)00149-8     Document Type: Article

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