Automatic detection of the intima-media layer in ultrasound common carotid artery image based on active contour model

Proceedings - 2011 International Conference on Intelligent Computation and Bio-Medical Instrumentation, ICBMI 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 105-108

  Jin, Jiaoying ^a   Ding, Mingyue ^a   Yang, Xin ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

B Mode Ultrasound Image; Common Carotid Artery (CCA); GVF Snake; Image Segmentation; Intima Media Thinkness (IMT)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; B-MODE ULTRASOUND IMAGES; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL PRACTICES; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER-BASED TECHNIQUES; GVF-SNAKE; IMAGE-BASED; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; INTIMA-MEDIA THINKNESS (IMT); MANUAL SEGMENTATION; MEAN ERRORS; MEDIA LAYERS; REGION IDENTIFICATION; RISK INDICES; SEGMENTATION ERROR; THRESHOLD SEGMENTATION; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; USER INTERACTION;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ALGORITHMS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84863039988     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICBMI.2011.48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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