Area-preserving flattening maps of 3D ultrasound carotid arteries images

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 676-688

  Chiu, Bernard ^a,b   Egger, Micaela ^a,b   Spence, David J ^a   Parraga, Grace ^a,b   Fenster, Aaron ^a,b  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D ultrasound (US); Area preserving map; Carotid atherosclerosis; Carotid plaque; Carotid ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; MAPS; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; PATIENT MONITORING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONICS;

3D ULTRASOUND (US); AREA-PRESERVING MAP; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID PLAQUE; CAROTID ULTRASOUND;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ATORVASTATIN;

ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BRAIN MAPPING; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; DRUG MEGADOSE; ECHOGRAPHY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; STROKE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 54249134385     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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