A 3-D ultrasound-based framework to characterize the echo morphology of carotid plaques

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1442-1453

  Seabra, José C R ^a   Pedro, Luís M ^b   E Fernandes, José Fernandes ^b   Sanches, João M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Carotid atherosclerosis; Labeling with graph cuts; Plaque echo morphology; Reconstruction; Three dimensional ultrasound

Indexed keywords

3-D ULTRASOUND; 3D RECONSTRUCTION; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID PLAQUES; CHARACTERIZATION METHODS; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES; FREEHAND ULTRASOUND; GRAPH CUT; IMAGE SELECTION; LABELING PROCEDURES; NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE; PLAQUE ECHO MORPHOLOGY; PLAQUE RUPTURE; RECONSTRUCTION; SIMPLE METHOD; SYNTHETIC DATA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LABELING; MORPHOLOGY; RESTORATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; CAROTID STENOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 67649224720     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2013964     Document Type: Article

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