Role of fuzzy pre-classifier for high performance LI/MA segmentation in b-mode longitudinal carotid ultrasound images

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4719-4722

  Molinari, Filippo ^a   Gaetano, Laura ^a   Balestra, Gabriella ^a   Suri, Jasjit S ^b,c  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b Biomedical Technologies Inc   (United States)

^c IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES; CAROTID ARTERY; DATA SETS; FUZZYFICATION; INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; MAMDANI; SEGMENTATION ACCURACY; SEGMENTATION ERROR; SEGMENTATION PERFORMANCE; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

CLASSIFIERS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 78650813081     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626390     Document Type: Conference Paper

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