Multi-Center MRI Carotid Plaque Component Segmentation Using Feature Normalization and Transfer Learning

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1294-1305

  Van Engelen, Arna ^a   Van Dijk, Anouk C ^a   Truijman, Martine T B ^b,c   Van'T Klooster, Ronald ^d   Van Opbroek, Annegreet ^a   Van Der Lugt, Aad ^a   Niessen, Wiro J ^a,f   Kooi, M Eline ^b   De Bruijne, Marleen ^a,e  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; carotid; classification; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); segmentation; transfer learning

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALIZATION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MAGNETIC LEVITATION VEHICLES; SUPERVISED LEARNING; TISSUE;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; CAROTID; CAROTID PLAQUE COMPONENTS; FEATURE NORMALIZATION; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; TISSUE CLASSIFICATION; TRANSFER LEARNING;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERIOGRAPHY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEARNING ALGORITHM; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; IMAGE PROCESSING; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC;

EID: 84939458303     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2014.2384733     Document Type: Article

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