Segmentation of the lumen and media-adventitia boundaries of the common carotid artery from 3D ultrasound images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7963, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ukwatta, E ^a,b   Awad, J ^a   Ward, A D ^a   Samarabandu, J ^b   Krasinski, A ^a   Parraga, G ^a,b   Fenster, A ^a,b  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

carotid atherosclerosis; Carotid segmentation; level set method; three dimensional ultrasound; vessel wall volume

Indexed keywords

CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID SEGMENTATION; LEVEL SET METHOD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND; VESSEL WALL VOLUME;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASES; DROP BREAKUP; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONITORING; NUMERICAL METHODS; ULTRASONICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 79955754248     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.877722     Document Type: Conference Paper

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