Effect of zooming on texture features of ultrasonic images

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kakkos, Stavros K ^a   Nicolaides, Andrew N ^a,b   Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos ^c   Pattichis, Constantinos S ^c   Geroulakos, George ^a,d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^d EALING HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; B SCAN; CAROTID ARTERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROCOMPUTER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULTRASOUND; ALGORITHM; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; CAROTID STENOSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33645451292     PISSN: 14767120     EISSN: 14767120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-4-8     Document Type: Article

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