Segmentation of the carotid intima-media region in B-mode ultrasound images

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 614-625

  Rocha, Rui ^a,b   Campilho, Aurélio ^a,c   Silva, Jorge ^a,c   Azevedo, Elsa ^d,e   Santos, Rosa ^e  

^a INEB INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA BIOMÉDICA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DO PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^d University of Porto   (Portugal)

^e HOSPITAL DE SÃO JOÃO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Carotid; Dynamic programming; Geometric snakes; Image segmentation; Thresholding; Ultrasound image

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; STATISTICS; ULTRASONICS;

B-MODE ULTRASOUND IMAGES; BEST FIT; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CUBIC SPLINE; END-WALL; GEOMETRIC SNAKE; INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL EXPERTS; NEW APPROACHES; SMOOTHNESS CONSTRAINTS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL EVALUATION; THRESHOLDING; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; USER INTERACTION;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 74749094600     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2009.09.017     Document Type: Article

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