Segmentation of atherosclerotic plaque components in ultrasonic B-mode images using a multiphase Bayesian level-set

IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1391-1394

  Porée, Jonathan ^a   Destrempes, François ^a   Soulez, Gilles ^a   Cloutier, Guy ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carotid plaque characterization; Nakagami distributions; Plaque vulnerability; Ultrasound image segmentation

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOMATIC PATIENTS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION METHOD; B-MODE IMAGES; BACK-SCATTERED; BIOLOGICAL COMPONENTS; CAROTID PLAQUES; ECHOGENICITY; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; FIXED NUMBERS; LEVEL SETS; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI; NAKAGAMI; NAKAGAMI DISTRIBUTION; NAKAGAMI PARAMETER; OPTIMAL PARTITIONS; P-VALUES; PLAQUE VULNERABILITY; SPATIAL COHESION; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; ULTRASOUND IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ELASTICITY; MIXTURES; STATISTICAL METHODS; ULTRASONICS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84869031080     PISSN: 19485719     EISSN: 19485727     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2011.0344     Document Type: Conference Paper

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