Three-Dimensional Automatic Volume Registration of Carotid MR Images

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 646-648

  Fei, Baowei ^a   Zhang, Shaoxiong ^b   Savado, Olivier ^a   Suri, Jasjit ^a   Lewin, Jonathan S ^a,b   Wilson, David L ^a,b  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotid plaque classification; Dark blood MR image; Image registration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD; DISEASES; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PROTONS;

CAROTID PLAQUE CLASSIFICATION; DARK BLOOD MEDICAL RESONANCE (MR) IMAGE; IMAGE REGISTRATION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 1542332601     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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