Threshold setting for likelihood function for elasticity-based tissue classification of arterial walls by evaluating variance in measurement of radial strain

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 47, Issue 5 PART 2, 2008, Pages 4180-4187

  Tsuzuki, Kentaro ^a   Hasegawa, Hideyuki ^a   Kanai, Hiroshi ^a   Ichiki, Masataka ^b   Tezuka, Fumiaki ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EAST JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY   (Japan)

^c SENDAI CITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Phased tracking method; Radial strain; Tissue classification

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BLOOD; ELASTICITY; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LIPIDS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STRAIN RATE; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONICS;

ARTERIAL TISSUES; ARTERIAL WALLS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORRELATIONBASED METHODS; ELASTICITY DISTRIBUTIONS; ELASTICITY IMAGES; ELASTICITY VALUES; EVALUATING; FIBROUS TISSUES; HARD TISSUES; IN VITRO; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LONGITUDINAL DIRECTIONS; OPTIMUM SIZES; PHASED TRACKING METHOD; PHASED TRACKING METHODS; RADIAL DIRECTIONS; RADIAL STRAIN; RADIAL STRAINS; RECOGNITION RATES; REGION OF INTERESTS; SINGLE PIXELS; SOFT TISSUES; THRESHOLD SETTINGS; THRESHOLDING; TISSUE CLASSIFICATION; TISSUE CLASSIFICATIONS;

BIOMECHANICS;

EID: 54949103587     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: 13474065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.47.4180     Document Type: Article

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