Comparison of multiresolution features for texture classification of carotid atherosclerosis from B-Mode ultrasound

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 130-137

  Tsiaparas, Nikolaos N ^a   Golemati, Spyretta ^b   Andreadis, Ioannis ^a   Stoitsis, John S ^a   Valavanis, Ioannis ^a   Nikita, Konstantina S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Carotid; texture; ultrasound; wavelet transforms

Indexed keywords

BASIS FUNCTIONS; BIOMECHANICAL FACTORS; CAROTID; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; DECOMPOSITION SCHEME; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; FEATURE SELECTION; GABOR TRANSFORM; MULTI-RESOLUTION APPROACH; MULTI-RESOLUTION FEATURE; NON-LINEAR CORRELATIONS; PROBABILISTIC NEURAL NETWORKS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATIONARY WAVELET TRANSFORMS; SUBIMAGES; TEXTURE ANALYSIS; TEXTURE CLASSIFICATION; TEXTURE FEATURES; THRESHOLDING; ULTRASOUND; WAVELET PACKETS;

BIOMECHANICS; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FREQUENCY BANDS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; ULTRASONICS; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

TEXTURES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; HUMANS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 78651293147     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2010.2091511     Document Type: Article

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