Symptomatic versus asymptomatique plaque classification in carotid ultrasound

Multi-Modality Atherosclerosis Imaging and Diagnosis

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 399-408

  Acharya, U Rajendra ^a,b   Faust, Oliver ^a   Sree, S Vinitha ^c   Molinari, Filippo ^d   Saba, Luca ^e   Nicolaides, Andrew ^f,g   Suri, Jasjit S ^c,h  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^c Global Biomedical Technologies Inc ^*  (India)

^d POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^e DEPARTMENT OF RADIOLOGY   (Italy)

^f Vascular Screening and Diagnostic Centre   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^h IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; PATIENT TREATMENT; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; ULTRASONICS;

CAROTID ULTRASOUNDS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS SYSTEMS; CROSS VALIDATION; DISCRETE-WAVELET-TRANSFORM; FEATURE-BASED; GOLD STANDARDS; GRAYSCALE FEATURES; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE CLASSIFIERS; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; VASCULAR SURGEONS;

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

EID: 84929537108     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-7425-8_29     Document Type: Chapter

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