Atherosclerotic carotid wall segmentation in ultrasound images using Markov random fields

Proceedings of the IEEE/EMBS Region 8 International Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, ITAB

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Petroudi, S ^a   Loizou, C P ^b   Pattichis, C S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b School of Sciences   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC METHOD; B-MODE ULTRASOUND IMAGES; BOUNDARY DETECTION; CLINICAL INFORMATION; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; GROUND TRUTH; IMAGE NORMALIZATION; INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; MARKOV RANDOM FIELD; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; SPECKLE REMOVAL; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL INFORMATION; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; WILCOXON RANK SUM TEST;

HOUGH TRANSFORMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 79951624421     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITAB.2010.5687685     Document Type: Conference Paper

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