CARES: Completely automated robust edge snapper for carotid ultrasound IMT measurement on a multi-institutional database of 300 images: A two stage system combining an intensity-based feature approach with first order absolute moments

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7962, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Molinari, Filippo ^a   Acharya, Rajendra ^b   Zeng, Guang ^c   Suri, Jasjit S ^d,e  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d Biomedical Technologies Inc   (United States)

^e IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES; CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CLINICAL TOOLS; FIRST ORDER; GAUSSIAN EDGE; IMAGE FEATURE EXTRACTIONS; IMAGE FRAMES; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTENSITY-BASED; LARGE DATASETS; LINE FITTING; MEASUREMENT BIAS; MEASUREMENT-BASED; MULTICENTER STUDY; TWO STAGE SYSTEM; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; USER INTERACTION;

AUTOMATION; DISEASES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 79958000725     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.877133     Document Type: Conference Paper

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