Motion compensation method using dynamic programming for quantification of neovascularization in carotid atherosclerotic plaques with contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS)

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8320, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Akkus, Zeynettin ^a   Hoogi, Assaf ^a,c   Renaud, Guillaume ^a   Ten Kate, Gerrit L ^a   Van Den Oord, Stijn C H ^a   Schinkel, Arend F L ^a   De Jong, Nico ^a,b   Van Der Steen, Antonius F W ^a,b   Bosch, Johan G ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced ultrasound; Intraplaque neovascularization; Motion compensation; Vulnerable plaques

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE ERROR; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; B-MODE IMAGES; B-MODE ULTRASOUND IMAGES; BLOCK MATCHING; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; IN-VIVO IMAGES; JUGULAR VEINS; LINEAR ARRAYS; MANUAL TRACKING; MOTION PATTERN; MOTION TRACKING; NEOVASCULARIZATION; OUT-OF-PLANE MOTION; PHILIPS; VULNERABLE PLAQUES;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

MOTION COMPENSATION;

EID: 84860723183     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.912468     Document Type: Conference Paper

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