Hypothesis validation of far-wall brightness in carotid-artery ultrasound for feature-based IMT Measurement using a combination of level-set segmentation and registration

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1054-1063

  Molinari, Filippo ^a   Krishnamurthi, Ganapathy ^b   Acharya, U Rajendra ^c   Sree, S Vinitha ^d   Zeng, Guang ^b   Saba, Luca ^e   Nicolaides, Andrew ^f   Suri, Jasjit S ^d,g  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^d Global Biomedical Technologies Inc   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brightness; carotid artery; far wall; intima media thickness (IMT); level set segmentation; nonrigid registration; performance; ultrasound (US)

Indexed keywords

CAROTID ARTERY; FAR WALL; INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS (IMT); LEVEL SETS; NONRIGID REGISTRATION; PERFORMANCE;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUMINANCE; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84858338514     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2011.2174901     Document Type: Article

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