Three-Dimensional Carotid Ultrasound Segmentation Variability Dependence on Signal Difference and Boundary Orientation

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 95-110

  Chiu, Bernard ^a,b   Krasinski, Adam ^a,b   Spence, J David ^a   Parraga, Grace ^a,b   Fenster, Aaron ^a,b  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

3 D Carotid ultrasound image; Boundary orientation; Gabor filter based edge detector; Local segmentation standard deviation; Signal difference

Indexed keywords

3-D ULTRASOUND; ACCURATE PREDICTION; ARTERIAL BOUNDARIES; ARTERIAL WALL; ATORVASTATIN; BOUNDARY ORIENTATION; CAROTID PLAQUES; CAROTID STENOSIS; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDGE DETECTORS; GABOR FILTER; GREYSCALE VALUES; LOCAL SIGNAL; LOCAL STANDARD DEVIATION; MULTIPLE SEGMENTATION; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; STANDARD DEVIATION; T-TESTS; TARGET VALUES; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); PATIENT MONITORING; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STANDARDS; STATISTICS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ATORVASTATIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICHOLESTEREMIC AGENTS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOMETRY; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID STENOSIS; FEMALE; HEPTANOIC ACIDS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PYRROLES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 71849101220     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2009.08.005     Document Type: Article

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