Segmentation of plaques in sequences of ultrasonic B-mode images of carotid arteries based on motion estimation and Nakagami distributions

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2480-2483

  Destrempes, François ^a   Soulez, Gilles ^a,b   Giroux, Marie France ^a,b   Meunier, Jean ^b   Cloutier, Guy ^a,b  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carotid artery plaque; Image segmentation; Motion estimation; Nakagami statistical distributions; Stochastic optimization

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; ERRORS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION;

ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY; ELASTICITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOOTHNESS CONSTRAINTS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATIONS;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EID: 77952856991     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441741     Document Type: Conference Paper

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