Dynamic programming and fuzzy classification for the automatic segmentation of the carotid in ultrasound images

Proceedings of the 12th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications, MVA 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 552-556

  Rocha, Rui ^a   Silva, Jorge ^b   Campilho, Aurélio ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DO PORTO   (Portugal)

^b INEB INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA BIOMÉDICA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; CLINICAL PRACTICES; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTATION TIME; EDGE DETECTORS; FUZZY CLASSIFICATION; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

COMPUTER VISION; DETECTORS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84862205546     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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