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

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1211-1222

  Molinari, Filippo ^a   Pattichis, Constantinos S ^b   Zeng, Guang ^c   Saba, Luca ^d   Acharya, U Rajendra ^e   Sanfilippo, Roberto ^d   Nicolaides, Andrew ^b   Suri, Jasjit S ^f,g  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF RADIOLOGY   (Italy)

^e DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^f Global Biomedical Technologies Inc   (United States)

^g IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; edge detection; first order absolute moment; first order Gaussian derivative; intima media thickness (IMT); segmentation; ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES; CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL TOOLS; DATA SETS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEATURE-BASED; FIRST-ORDER; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; LOW-COMPLEXITY; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; MEAN DISTANCES; MEASUREMENT BIAS; MULTI-RESOLUTIONS; SCALE-SPACE; SEGMENTATION ERROR; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION; TWO STAGE; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISEASES; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

AUTOMATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTIMA; METHODOLOGY; TUNICA MEDIA; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; CAROTID ARTERIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 84857322542     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2011.2169270     Document Type: Article

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