Initial contour for ultrasound carotid artery snakes

ISSPIT 2007 - 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 390-395

  Moursi, Sherif G ^a   El Sakka, Mahmoud R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active contours models; Carotid artery; Initial contour; Ultrasound image

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR ALGORITHMS; ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; ACTIVE CONTOURS MODEL; BALLOON MODELS; CAROTID ARTERY; DEFORMABLE MODELS; IMAGE NOISE; INITIAL CONTOUR; MEDICAL IMAGES; REGION OF INTEREST; SEED POINT; SNAKE MODEL; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; USER INTERACTION;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 71549133097     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSPIT.2007.4458120     Document Type: Conference Paper

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