Constrained snake vs. conventional snake for carotid ultrasound automated IMT measurements on multi-center data sets

Ultrasonics

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 949-961

  Molinari, Filippo ^a   Meiburger, Kristen M ^a   Saba, Luca ^c   Rajendra Acharya, U ^b   Ledda, Mario ^c   Nicolaides, Andrew ^d   Suri, Jasjit S ^e,f,g  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^c AUO Cagliari ^*  (Italy)

^d Vascular Diagnostic Center   (Cyprus)

^e Global Biomedical Technologies Inc (GBTI)   (United States)

^f IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g AtheroPoint LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Carotid intima media thickness; Constraints; Deformable parametric model; Snake

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CONSTRAINTS; PARAMETRIC MODELS; SNAKE;

AUTOMATION; DISEASES; MODELS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

MEASUREMENTS;

ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BENCHMARKING; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CAROTID STENOSIS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84863717513     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2012.03.005     Document Type: Article

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