Automated detection of the carotid artery wall in B-mode ultrasound images using active contours initialized by the Hough Transform

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3146-3149

  Stoitsis, J ^a   Golemati, S ^a   Kendros, S ^a   Nikita, K S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Active contours; Arterial wall; Hough Transform; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FLOW FIELDS; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; ARTERIAL WALL; AUTOMATED DETECTION; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; B-MODE ULTRASOUND IMAGES; CONTOUR ESTIMATION; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW FIELDS; TRANSVERSE SECTION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOMATION; CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; AUTOMATION; CAROTID ARTERIES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 61849108280     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649871     Document Type: Conference Paper

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