Manual and automated media and intima thickness measurements of the common carotid artery

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 983-994

  Loizou, Christos P ^a   Pattichis, Constantinos S ^b   Nicolaides, Andrew N ^c   Pantziaris, Marios ^d  

^a School of Sciences   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^c Vascular Screening and Diagnostic Centre Nicosia   (Cyprus)

^d CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED MEASUREMENT; AUTOMATED METHODS; AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION METHOD; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR EVENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; LAYER THICKNESS; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; MEAN STANDARD DEVIATION; MEDIA LAYERS; SEGMENTATION METHODS; TEXTURE FEATURES; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; AUTOMATION; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; TEXTURES; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC DELAY LINES; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

MEASUREMENTS;

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTIMA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TUNICA MEDIA;

AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 67650473273     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2009.1130     Document Type: Article

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