Completely automated multiresolution edge snapper (CAMES): A new technique for an accurate carotid ultrasound IMT measurement and its validation on a multi-institutional database

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7962, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Molinari, Filippo ^a   Loizou, Christos ^b   Zeng, Guang ^c   Pattichis, Costantinos ^d   Pantziaris, Marios ^e   Liboni, William ^f   Nicolaides, Andrew ^d,g   Suri, Jasjit S ^h,i  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b School of Sciences   (Cyprus)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^e CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

^f GRADENIGO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^g Vascular Screening and Diagnostic Centre   (United Kingdom)

^h Biomedical Technologies Inc   (United States)

ⁱ IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES; CAROTID ARTERY; IMAGE FRAMES; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; MEASUREMENT-BASED; MULTI-RESOLUTION APPROACH; MULTI-RESOLUTIONS; RESEARCH TEAMS; WATERSHED TRANSFORM;

AUTOMATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

EID: 79958015020     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.877131     Document Type: Conference Paper

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