A fully automated method using active contours for the evaluation of the intima-media thickness in carotid US images

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 8053-8057

  Petroudi, Styliani ^a   Loizou, Christos ^b   Pantziaris, Marios ^c   Pattichis, Marios ^d   Pattichis, Constantinos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b Intercollege ^*  (Cyprus)

^c CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

^d MSC01 1070   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; ANATOMICAL INFORMATION; AUTOMATED ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATED METHODS; B-MODE ULTRASOUND IMAGES; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; GROUND TRUTH; IMAGE NORMALIZATION; INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; LEVEL SET FORMULATIONS; PARAMETRIC ACTIVE CONTOURS; SEGMENTED REGIONS; SPECKLE REMOVAL; STANDARD DEVIATION; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; WALL REGION; WILCOXON RANK SUM TEST;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; ULTRASONICS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTIMA; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; TUNICA MEDIA;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 84861692205     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091986     Document Type: Conference Paper

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