Inter-greedy technique for fusion of different segmentation strategies leading to high-performance carotid IMT measurement in ultrasound images

Atherosclerosis Disease Management

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 253-279

  Molinari, Filippo ^a   Zeng, Guang ^b,c   Suri, Jasjit S ^d,e,f  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b South   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d Biomedical Technologies Inc   (United States)

^e IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Eigen Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated tracings; Benchmarking; Carotid artery; Geometric features; Greedy method; Integration; Performance evaluation; Ultrasound imaging; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868106429     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7222-4_10     Document Type: Chapter

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