Medical decision-making system of ultrasound carotid artery intima-media thickness using neural networks

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1112-1125

  Santhiyakumari, N ^a   Rajendran, P ^a   Madheswaran, M ^b  

^a K S RANGASAMY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b MUTHAYAMMAL ENGINEERING COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Carotid artery; Carotid artery classification; Contour extraction; Decision support techniques ; Digital image processing; Image segmentation; Medical decision making system; Multilayer back propagation network; Neural network classifier; Neural networks; US carotid artery image analysis

Indexed keywords

CAROTID ARTERY; CONTOUR EXTRACTION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MULTILAYER BACK PROPAGATION NETWORK; NEURAL NETWORK CLASSIFIER;

BACKPROPAGATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MULTILAYERS; ULTRASONICS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 84855583315     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-010-9356-8     Document Type: Article

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