SpLiNeS: Automatic analysis of ecographic movies of flow-mediated dilation

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6513, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Bartoli, Guido ^a   Menegaz, Gloria ^a   Dragoni, Saverio ^a   Gori, Tommaso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active contour; Deformable splines; Flow mediated dilation; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING; EDGE DETECTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; DEFORMABLE SPLINES; ECOGRAPHIC MOVIES; FLOW MEDIATED DILATION (FMD);

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 35148859395     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.709545     Document Type: Conference Paper

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