Automatic measurement of the intima-media thickness with active contour based image segmentation

MeMeA 2007 2nd - IEEE International Workshop on Medical Measurement and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 75-79

  Ceccarelli, M ^a   De Luca, N ^b   Morganella, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active contour; Anisotropic diffusion; Energy functional; Intima media complex; Segmentation; Snake; Speckle

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

ACTIVE CONTOUR; ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; ENERGY FUNCTIONAL; INTIMA-MEDIA COMPLEX; SEGMENTATION; SNAKE;

SPECKLE;

EID: 47849127426     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MEMEA.2007.4285167     Document Type: Conference Paper

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