Texture analysis of carotid artery atherosclerosis from three-dimensional ultrasound images

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1382-1391

  Awad, Joseph ^a   Krasinski, Adam ^a   Parraga, Grace ^a,b,c,d   Fenster, Aaron ^a,b,c,d  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c Department of Medical Biophysics ^*  (Canada)

^d Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carotid artery plaque; Features selection; Multi classification; Texture; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DISEASES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; TEXTURES; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

CAROTID ARTERY; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; FEATURES SELECTION; MULTI-CLASSIFICATION; RECEIVER OPERATOR CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; SEQUENTIAL FLOATING FORWARD SELECTION (SFFS); THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

IMAGE TEXTURE;

EID: 77950573887     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3301592     Document Type: Article

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