An integrated system for assessing stroke risk

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 43-50

  Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C ^a,b,c   Pattichis, Constantinos S ^b   Karaolis, Minas A ^b   Loizou, Christos P ^a,d   Christodoulou, Christodoulos I ^g   Pattichis, Marios S ^e,f   Kakkos, Stavros ^g   Nicolaides, Andrew ^g  

^a CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^c IEEE

^d Computer Science and Engineering Department ^*

^e University of New Mexico   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNM ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENTROPY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTIMA; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, REGIONAL; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID SINUS; CAROTID STENOSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DECISION TREES; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 34748892300     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/EMB.2007.901794     Document Type: Article

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