A novel segmentation technique for carotid ultrasound images

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Hamou, Ali K ^a   El Sakka, Mahmoud R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; MORPHOLOGY; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; SPECKLE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

BOUNDARY IDENTIFICATION; EXECUTION TIME; HISTOGRAMS; MODULES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 4544220683     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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