A new method based on dynamic programming for boundary detection in ultrasound image sequences

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 3072-3074

  Holdfeldt, Peter ^a   Viberg, Mats ^a   Gustavsson, Tomas ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

BOUNDARY DETECTION; CAROTID ARTERY; INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; MULTI-FRAME DETECTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEMS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEM; ULTRASOUND DATA; ULTRASOUND IMAGE SEQUENCES;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATHOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; CAROTID ARTERIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOVEMENT; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 61849159931     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649852     Document Type: Conference Paper

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