A hybrid method to segment common carotid arteries from 3D ultrasound images

Proceedings - IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics: Global Grand Challenge of Health Informatics, BHI 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 241-244

  Yang, Xin ^a   He, Wanji ^a   Jin, Jiaoying ^a   Zhang, Xuming ^a   Yuchi, Ming ^a   Ding, Mingyue ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D ULTRASOUND; B-MODE ULTRASOUND IMAGES; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; HYBRID METHOD; MEAN ABSOLUTE DISTANCE; PATIENT DATA; SIMILARITY COEFFICIENTS;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; BIOSENSORS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONICS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84864223768     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BHI.2012.6211555     Document Type: Conference Paper

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