Automatic evaluation of carotid intima-media thickness in ultrasounds using machine learning

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7931 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2013, Pages 241-249

  Menchón Lara, Rosa María ^a   Bastida Jumilla, María Consuelo ^a   González López, Antonio ^b   Sancho Gómez, José Luis ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; B-MODE ULTRASOUND IMAGES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; NEURAL NETWORK ENSEMBLES; PATTERN RECOGNITION PROBLEMS; SEGMENTATION PROCEDURE;

BLOOD VESSELS; DISEASES; ELASTICITY; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; ULTRASONICS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84885758336     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-38622-0_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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