A novel morphologial-based carotid artery contour extraction

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 1873-1876

  Abdel Dayem, Amr R ^a   El Sakka, Mahmoud R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnostic; Contour detection; Morphology operations; Plaque precipitation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSTICS; CONTOUR DETECTION; MORPHOLOGY OPERATIONS; PLAQUE PRECIPITATION;

BLOOD VESSELS; KALMAN FILTERING; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 4944231471     PISSN: 08407789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCECE.2004.1347574     Document Type: Conference Paper

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