Automatic recognition of the common carotid artery in longitudinal ultrasound B-mode scans

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 653-665

  Rossi, Alessandro C ^a   Brands, Peter J ^a   Hoeks, Arnold P G ^b  

^a Esaote   (Italy)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automatic recognition; Carotid artery; Lumen; Segmentation; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; DATA RECORDING; DATA STRUCTURES; EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; TEMPLATE MATCHING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION; CAROTID ARTERY; LUMEN; SEGMENTATION; ULTRASOUND;

IMAGE MATCHING;

ALGORITHM; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; B SCAN; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 54249107589     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2008.03.003     Document Type: Article

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