Detection and Quantification of Calcifications in Intravascular Ultrasound Images by Automatic Thresholding

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 160-165

  Santos Filho, E ^a   Saijo, Y ^a   Tanaka, A ^b   Yoshizawa, M ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automatic thresholding; Calcification detection; Image segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

AUTOMATIC THRESHOLDING; CALCIFICATION DETECTION; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY);

ALGORITHM; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY STENOSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 37049021116     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.06.025     Document Type: Article

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