Quality evaluation of ultrasound imaging in the carotid artery based on normalization and speckle reduction filtering

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 414-426

  Loizou, Christos P ^a   Pattichis, C S ^b   Pantziaris, M ^c   Tyllis, T ^c   Nicolaides, A ^c,d  

^a Intercollege ^*  (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^c CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

^d ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carotid artery; Image quality; Speckle reduction filtering; Texture analysis; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEXTURES; ULTRASONICS;

CAROTID ARTERY; SPECKLE REDUCTION FILTERING; TEXTURE ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL FILTERING; ECHOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; VISION;

CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33745456397     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-006-0045-1     Document Type: Article

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