An accurate and generalized approach to plaque characterization in 346 carotid ultrasound scans

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1045-1053

  Acharya, U Rajendra ^a   Faust, Oliver ^a   Sree, S Vinitha ^b   Molinari, Filippo ^c   Saba, Luca ^d   Nicolaides, Andrew ^e,f   Suri, Jasjit S ^b,g  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^b Global Biomedical Technologies Inc   (United States)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^e Vascular Screening and Diagnostic Centre   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^g IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; carotid ultrasound; classification; discrete wavelet transform (DWT); grayscale features; support vector machine (SVM)

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOMATED DECISION MAKING; CAD SYSTEM; CARDIAC HEALTH; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CROSS VALIDATION; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS (DWT); GRAY SCALE; GROUND TRUTH; ORDER 2; POLYNOMIAL KERNELS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE (SVM); SVM CLASSIFIERS; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; ULTRASOUND SCANS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; DISEASES; FEATURE EXTRACTION;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84858337788     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2011.2174897     Document Type: Article

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