Automated high-performance cIMT measurement techniques using patented AtheroEdge™: A screening and home monitoring system

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 6651-6654

  Molinari, Filippo ^a   Meiburger, Kristen M ^a   Suri, Jasjit ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; DISTANCE METRICS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE TECHNIQUES; HOME MONITORING SYSTEMS; INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; REMOTE MONITORING; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; SEMI-AUTOMATIC ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS;

MONITORING;

ALGORITHM; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK;

ALGORITHMS; ARTERIES; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; AUTOMATION; CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK;

EID: 84864591709     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091640     Document Type: Conference Paper

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