Fully automated dual-snake formulation for carotid intima-media thickness measurement: A new approach

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1123-1136

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

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b DEPARTMENT OF RADIOLOGY   (Italy)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^e Vascular Diagnostic Center   (Cyprus)

^f AtheroPoint LLC   (United States)

^g IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Atherosclerosis; Automation; Carotid intima media thickness; Deformable parametric model; First order absolute moment; Snake; Validation

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; SCANNING; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ACCURACY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; DEFORMABLE PARAMETRIC MODELS; FIRST-ORDER ABSOLUTE MOMENTS; SNAKE; VALIDATION;

AUTOMATION;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84864191643     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: 15509613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2012.31.7.1123     Document Type: Article

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