A comparative study of morphological and other texture features for the characterization of atherosclerotic carotid plaques

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2756, Issue , 2003, Pages 503-511

  Christodoulou, C I ^a   Kyriacou, E ^b   Pattichis, M S ^c   Pattichis, C S ^b   Nicolaides, A ^d  

^a CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^c University of New Mexico   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RISK PERCEPTION; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

CAROTID PLAQUES; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; FIRST-ORDER STATISTICS; GRAY LEVEL DIFFERENCES; HIGH RESOLUTION ULTRASOUND; K-NEAREST NEIGHBOR CLASSIFIERS (KNN); MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; TEXTURE FEATURES;

NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH;

EID: 35248865305     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-45179-2_62     Document Type: Review

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