Ultrasound IMT measurement on a multi-ethnic and multi-institutional database: Our review and experience using four fully automated and one semi-automated methods

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 946-960

  Molinari, Filippo ^a   Meiburger, Kristen M ^a   Saba, Luca ^b   Acharya, U Rajendra ^c   Ledda, Giuseppe ^b   Zeng, Guang ^d   Ho, Sin Yee Stella ^e   Ahuja, Anil T ^e   Ho, Suzanne C ^e   Nicolaides, Andrew ^f   Suri, Jasjit S ^g,h,i  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b AUO Cagliari ^*  (Italy)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^e CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^f Vascular Diagnostic Center   (Cyprus)

^g AtheroPoint LLC   (United States)

^h Global Biomedical Technologies Inc   (United States)

ⁱ IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy and reproducibility; Atherosclerosis; Automation; Benchmarking; Carotid artery; Intima media thickness measurement; Segmentation; Ultrasound; Validation

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY; INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; VALIDATION;

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; BENCHMARKING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

AUTOMATION;

ACCURACY; ADVENTITIA; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTIMA; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMATION; CAROTID ARTERIES; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; TUNICA INTIMA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84868531096     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2012.05.008     Document Type: Article

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