Automated and accurate carotid bulb detection, its verification and validation in low quality frozen frames and motion video

International Angiology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 573-589

  Ikeda, N ^a   Araki, T ^b   Dey, N ^c   Bose, S ^c   Shafique, S ^d   El Baz, A ^e   Cuadrado Godia, E ^f   Anzidef, M ^g   Saba, L ^g,h   Suri, J S ^c,i,j  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY OHASHI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c Global Biomedical Technologies Inc ^*  (United States)

^d Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery   (United States)

^e University of Louisville   (United States)

^f HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^g DEPARTMENT OF RADIOLOGY   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

ⁱ AtheroPoint LLC   (United States)

^j IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Carotid intima media thickness; Validation studies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR PROBE; MOTION; ORIENTATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASOUND; VALIDATION STUDY; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FACTUAL DATABASE; PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS;

ALGORITHMS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84926325460     PISSN: 03929590     EISSN: 18271839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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