Ultrasound imaging in the analysis of carotid plaque morphology for the assessment of stroke

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 113, Issue , 2005, Pages 241-275

  Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos ^a,b   Pattichis, Marios S ^a,c   Christodoulou, Christodoulos I ^a,b   Pattichis, Constantinos S ^a   Kakkos, Stavros ^d   Griffin, Maura ^d   Nicolaides, Andrew ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

^c University of New Mexico   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

assessment of stroke; morphology analysis; texture analysis; Ultrasound plaque image

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; NEURAL NETWORKS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ASSESSMENT OF STROKE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; K NEAREST NEIGHBOURS (K-NN); MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; MORPHOLOGY ANALYSIS; PROBABILISTIC NEURAL NETWORKS; STATISTICAL CLASSIFIER; TEXTURE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); STROKE; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 34047169396     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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