First and second order statistical texture features in carotid plaque image analysis: Preliminary results from ongoing research

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 6655-6658

  Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos ^a   Nicolaides, Andrew ^b   Pattichis, Constantinos S ^c   Petroudi, Styliani ^c   Pattichis, Marios ^d   Griffin, Maura ^b   Kakkos, Stavros ^e   Makris, Grigoris ^f  

^a FREDERICK UNIVERSITY   (Cyprus)

^b Vascular Screening and Diagnostic Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^d MSC01 1070   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL WALL; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY STENOSIS; CAROTID PLAQUES; CLINICAL FEATURES; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MEDICAL INTERVENTION; NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK STRATIFICATION; SECOND ORDERS; TEXTURE FEATURES;

HEMODYNAMICS; TEXTURES;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COHORT STUDIES; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84864575595     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091641     Document Type: Conference Paper

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