Diffusion-based detection of carotid artery lumen from ultrasound images

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5627 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 782-791

  Abdel Dayem, Amr R ^a   El Sakka, Mahmoud R ^b  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carotid artery lumen; Complex diffusion; Experimental study; Segmentation; Ultrasound image

Indexed keywords

CAROTID ARTERY LUMEN; COMPLEX DIFFUSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SEGMENTATION; ULTRASOUND IMAGE;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; DIFFUSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 70350241777     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02611-9_77     Document Type: Conference Paper

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