Statistical segmentation of carotid plaque neovascularization

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8675, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Akkus, Zeynettin ^a   Bosch, Johan G ^a   Sánchez Ferrero, Gonzalo Vegas ^a,c   Carvalho, Diego D B ^a   Renaud, Guillaume ^a   Van Den Oord, Stijn C H ^a   Ten Kate, Gerrit L ^a   Schinkel, Arend F L ^a   De Jong, Nico ^a,b   Van Der Steen, Antonius F W ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Neovascularization quantification; Plaque neovascularization; Statistical segmentation; Ultrasound contrast

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE QUANTIFICATIONS; CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; INTRAPLAQUE NEOVASCULARIZATION; NEO-VASCULARIZATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL BEHAVIORS; STATISTICAL SEGMENTATION; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PIXELS; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84878410249     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2006483     Document Type: Conference Paper

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