A system for real-time measurement of the brachial artery diameter in B-mode ultrasound images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 393-404

  Gemignani, Vincenzo ^a   Faita, Francesco ^a   Ghiadoni, Lorenzo ^b   Poggianti, Elisa ^a   Demi, Marcello ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c Esaote   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brachial artery; Flow mediated dilation; Real time systems; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD PRESSURE; EDGE DETECTION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; IMAGE PROCESSING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; FLOW MEDIATED DILATION; ROBUST EDGE DETECTION ALGORITHMS;

BIOMATERIALS;

ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 33847790738     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.891477     Document Type: Article

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