Ultrasound intima-media segmentation using Hough transform and dual snake model

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 248-258

  Xu, Xiangyang ^a   Zhou, Yuan ^a   Cheng, Xinyao ^b   Song, Enmin ^a   Li, Guokuan ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Active contour model; Hough transform; Image segmentation; Intima media thickness; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; BOUNDARY DETECTION; CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL PARAMETERS; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; GROUND TRUTH DATA; INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; LINE SEGMENT; SNAKE MODEL; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

HOUGH TRANSFORMS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; BINARY IMAGE SEGMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL SNAKE MODEL; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HOUGH TRANSFORM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTIMA; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MALE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUNICA MEDIA;

ALGORITHMS; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC;

EID: 84858072893     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: 18790771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2011.06.007     Document Type: Article

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