Surface Roughness Detection of Arteries via Texture Analysis of Ultrasound Images for Early Diagnosis of Atherosclerosis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Niu, Lili ^a   Qian, Ming ^a   Yang, Wei ^a   Meng, Long ^a   Xiao, Yang ^a   Wong, Kelvin K L ^b   Abbott, Derek ^b   Liu, Xin ^a   Zheng, Hairong ^a  

^a SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL ROUGHNESS; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; K NEAREST NEIGHBOR; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TEXTURE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AREA UNDER CURVE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; ROC CURVE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84885719604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076880     Document Type: Article

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