An automatic 2D CAD algorithm for the segmentation of the IMT in ultrasound carotid artery images

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 515-519

  Ilea, Dana E ^a   Whelan, Paul F ^a,b   Brown, Catherine ^a,b   Stanton, Alice ^a,b  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION; IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM; PERFORMANCE METRICS; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; SEGMENTATION SCHEME; STATISTICAL MODELING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 77951017463     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333773     Document Type: Conference Paper

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