Atheromatic™: Symptomatic vs. asymptomatic classification of carotid ultrasound plaque using a combination of HOS, DWT & texture

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 4489-4492

  Acharya, U Rajendra ^a   Faust, Oliver ^a   Sree, S Vinitha ^b   Alvin, Ang Peng Chuan ^a   Krishnamurthi, Ganapathy ^d   Seabra, Josae C R ^c   Sanches, João ^c   Suri, Jasjit S ^e,f  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Global Biomedical Technologies Inc   (United States)

^f IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

atherosclerosis; carotid; classifier; discrete wavelet transform; higher order spectra; support vector machine; symptomatic; texture

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID; DISCRETE WAVELETS; HIGHER ORDER SPECTRUM; SUPPORT VECTOR; SYMPTOMATIC;

CLASSIFIERS; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; DISEASES; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TEXTURES; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERIES; HUMANS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84055193902     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091113     Document Type: Conference Paper

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