Prediction of high-risk asymptomatic carotid plaques based on ultrasonic image features

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 966-973

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

^a FREDERICK UNIVERSITY   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^c MSC01 1070   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^e Vascular Noninvasive Screening and Diagnostic Centre   (United Kingdom)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g Cyprus Cardiovascular Disease Educational Research Trust   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Assessment of stroke risk; plaque imaging; ultrasound image analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL WALL; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY STENOSIS; CAROTID PLAQUES; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; CLINICAL FEATURES; GRAY LEVELS; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOMS; PLAQUE IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECOND ORDER STATISTICS; TEXTURE FEATURES; ULTRASONIC IMAGES; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

HEMODYNAMICS; TEXTURES; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

FORECASTING;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; CAROTID STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84866598909     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2012.2192446     Document Type: Article

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