Carotid artery recognition system: A comparison of three automated paradigms for ultrasound images

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 378-391

  Molinari, Filippo ^a   Meiburger, Kristen M ^a   Zeng, Guang ^b   Acharya, U Rajendra ^c   Liboni, William ^d   Nicolaides, Andrew ^e,f   Suri, Jasjit S ^g,h  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b MBF Bioscience   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^d GRADENIGO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e Vascular Screening and Diagnostic Centre   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^g Global Biomedical Technologies Inc   (United States)

^h IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

carotid artery; feature extraction; Hausdorff distance; higher order derivative; intima media thickness; local statistics; localization; scale; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GEOMETRY; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; THICKNESS GAGES; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

CAROTID ARTERY; HAUSDORFF DISTANCE; HIGHER ORDER DERIVATIVES; INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; LOCAL STATISTICS; LOCALIZATION; SCALE;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

CARSIA;

EID: 84855468005     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3670373     Document Type: Article

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