Assessment of stroke risk based on morphological ultrasound image analysis with conformal prediction

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volumn 339 AICT, Issue , 2010, Pages 146-153

  Lambrou, Antonis ^a   Papadopoulos, Harris ^a,b   Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos ^b,c   Pattichis, Constantinos S ^c   Pattichis, Marios S ^c,d   Gammerman, Alexander ^a   Nicolaides, Andrew ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b FREDERICK UNIVERSITY   (Cyprus)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^e CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

carotid plaques; confidence measures; Conformal Prediction; stroke risk assessment; ultrasound images

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; NEURAL NETWORKS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

CAROTID PLAQUES; CONFIDENCE MEASURE; CONFORMAL PREDICTIONS; K NEAREST NEIGHBOURS (K-NN); NAIVE BAYES CLASSIFICATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE (SVMS); ULTRASOUND IMAGE ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 78549281407     PISSN: 18684238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16239-8_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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