Understanding symptomatology of atherosclerotic plaque by image-based tissue characterization

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 66-75

  Acharya, U Rajendra ^a,b   Faust, Oliver ^c   S , Vinitha Sree ^d   Alvin, A P C ^a   Krishnamurthi, Ganapathy ^e   Seabra, José C R ^f   Sanches, João ^f   Suri, Jasjit S ^g,h  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d Global Biomedical Technologies Inc   (United States)

^e CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^g AtheroPoint LLC   (United States)

^h IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Carotid; Classifier; Discrete wavelet transform; Higher order spectra; Support vector machine; Symptomatic; Texture

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; CAROTID; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; HIGHER ORDER SPECTRUM; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION(RBF); SYMPTOMATIC; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION;

CLASSIFIERS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; DISEASES; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; TEXTURES; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SENSIBILITY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CAROTID STENOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 84875110774     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2012.09.008     Document Type: Article

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