Assessment of carotid atherosclerosis from B-mode ultrasound images using directional multiscale texture features

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Tsiaparas, N N ^a   Golemati, S ^b   Andreadis, I ^a   Stoitsis, J ^a   Valavanis, I ^a   Nikita, K S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; STATISTICAL METHODS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; B-MODE ULTRASOUND IMAGES; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; DECOMPOSITION SCHEME; DUAL-TREE COMPLEX WAVELETS; MULTI-SCALE TRANSFORMS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE CLASSIFIERS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84868146119     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/23/11/114004     Document Type: Article

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