A user friendly system for ultrasound carotid intima-media thickness image interpretation

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7968, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Zhu, Xiangjun ^a   Kendall, Christopher B ^b   Hurst, R Todd ^b   Liang, Jianming ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

active contour models; cardiovascular disease; snakes with hard constraints; ultrasound Carotid Intima Media Thickness (CIMT); User Friendly Software Systems

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; HARD CONSTRAINTS; ULTRASOUND CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS (CIMT); USER-FRIENDLY SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

HEALTH RISKS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 79957953235     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.878426     Document Type: Conference Paper

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