Carotid ultrasound segmentation using DP active contours

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

Volumn 4633 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 961-971

  Hamou, Ali K ^a   Osman, Said ^b   El Sakka, Mahmoud R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b St Joseph Health Care   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active contour models; Carotid stenosis; Image segmentation; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TISSUE; VISUALIZATION;

CROSSSECTIONAL TRANSVERSE CAROTID ARTERY; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 37849053096     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74260-9_85     Document Type: Conference Paper

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