Detections of arterial wall in sonographic artery images using dual dynamic programming

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 792-799

  Cheng, Da Chuan ^a   Jiang, Xiaoyi ^b  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dual dynamic programming (DDP); Intima media thickness (IMT)

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ARTERIAL WALLS; COMMON CAROTID ARTERIES; DETECTION PERFORMANCES; DUAL DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING (DDP); DUAL DYNAMIC PROGRAMMINGS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS (IMT); MANUAL TRACINGS; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; SONOGRAPHIC; SONOGRAPHIC IMAGES;

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTIMA; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 56549127393     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2008.926413     Document Type: Article

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