Using the Hough Transform to Segment Ultrasound Images of Longitudinal and Transverse Sections of the Carotid Artery

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1918-1932

  Golemati, Spyretta ^a   Stoitsis, John ^a   Sifakis, Emmanouil G ^a   Balkizas, Thomas ^a   Nikita, Konstantina S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

B mode ultrasound; Carotid artery; Hough transform; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; DIAGNOSIS; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ARTERIAL LUMENS; BLOCK MATCHING (BM); INTIMA MEDIA THICKNESS (IMT);

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ADULT; ARTERIAL DISTENSION WAVEFORM; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOMATION; B SCAN; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HOUGH TRANSFORM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ULTRASOUND; WAVEFORM;

ADULT; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID STENOSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 36849025927     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.05.021     Document Type: Article

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