CARES 3.0: A two stage system combining feature-based recognition and edge-based segmentation for CIMT measurement on a multi-institutional ultrasound database of 300 images

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5149-5152

  Molinari, Filippo ^a   Meiburger, Kristen M ^a   Acharya, U Rajendra ^b   Zeng, Guang ^c   Rodrigues, Paulo S ^d   Saba, Luca ^e   Nicolaides, Andrew ^f   Suri, Jasjit S ^g  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d CENTRO UNIVERSITÁRIO DA FEI   (Brazil)

^e AUO Cagliari ^*  (Italy)

^f Vascular Screening Diagnostic Center   (Cyprus)

^g CTO of Global Biomedical Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED METHODS; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES; CAROTID ARTERY; EDGE-BASED; FEATURE-BASED; HEURISTIC SEARCH; IMAGE FRAMES; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; MEASUREMENT BIAS; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; PATENTED TECHNOLOGY; SEMI-AUTOMATED; TWO STAGE SYSTEM;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MODULAR ROBOTS; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYPRUS; ECHOGRAPHY; FACTUAL DATABASE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; ITALY; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CYPRUS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ITALY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84055193424     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091275     Document Type: Conference Paper

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