Ultrasonographic characterization and identification of symptomatic carotid plaques

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 6110-6113

  Seabra, José ^a   Pedro, Luís Mendes ^b   Fernandes, José Fernandes ^b   Sanches, João ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS AND ROBOTICS   (Portugal)

^b HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADABOOST; CAROTID PLAQUES; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; CLINICAL INFORMATION; CROSS-VALIDATION TECHNIQUE; DE-SPECKLING; EMBOLIZATION; EXTENDED FEATURES; FEATURE ANALYSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION AND CLASSIFICATION; FEATURE SETS; FLOW REDUCTION; GREY-LEVEL; NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOMS; OPTIMAL TREATMENT; PLAQUE DETECTION; RADIO FREQUENCIES; TEXTURE FEATURES;

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; RADIO WAVES;

EID: 78650804073     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627811     Document Type: Conference Paper

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