Characterization of carotid atherosclerosis based on motion and texture features and clustering using fuzzy c-means

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 26 II, Issue , 2004, Pages 1407-1410

  Stoitsis, J ^a   Golemati, S ^a   Nikita, K S ^a   Nicolaides, A N ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotid atherosclerosis; Fuzzy c means; Motion; Texture; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEXTURES; VISUALIZATION;

CARTOID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; FUZZY C-MEANS; MAXIMAL SURFACE VELOCITY (MSV); MOTION PATTERNS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 11144267815     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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