Snakes based segmentation of the common carotid artery intima media

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-49

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

^a INTERCOLLEGE   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^c CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carotid artery; Intima media thickness; Normalization; Snakes; Speckle reduction filtering; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGY; BIOMATERIALS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT;

CARTOID ARTERY; INTIMA MEDIA THICKNESS; NORMALIZATION; SNAKES; SPECKLE REDUCTION FILTERING; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 33846418345     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-006-0140-3     Document Type: Article

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