Application of Neural Networks for the Analysis of Intravascular Ultrasound and Histological Aortic Wall Appearance-An In Vitro Tissue Characterization Study

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 103-113

  Chrzanowski, Lukasz ^a   Drozdz, Jaroslaw ^a   Strzelecki, Michal ^b   Krzeminska Pakula, Maria ^a   Jedrzejewski, Kazimierz S ^a   Kasprzak, Jaroslaw D ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^b LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Aorta; Artificial neural networks; Intravascular ultrasound; Tissue characterization

Indexed keywords

HISTOLOGY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; PATHOLOGY; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

AORTA; COMPUTER-BASED DISCRIMINATION; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND (IVUS) IMAGING; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS (LDA);

NEURAL NETWORKS;

AORTA WALL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CADAVER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THORACIC AORTA; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER);

EID: 37149019889     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.06.021     Document Type: Article

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