Characterization of carotid atherosclerotic plaques using frequency-based texture analysis and bootstrap

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2392-2395

  Stoitsis, J ^a   Tsiaparas, N ^a   Golemati, S ^a   Nikita, K S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Carotid atherosclerosis; Fourier power spectrum; Texture analysis; Ultrasound imaging; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD VESSELS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ASYMPTOMATIC PLAQUES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUES; STANDARD DEVIATION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34047124393     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260723     Document Type: Conference Paper

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