Effect of Watermarking on Diagnostic Preservation of Atherosclerotic Ultrasound Video in Stroke Telemedicine

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1-14

  Dey, Nilanjan ^a,b,h   Bose, Soumyo ^b   Das, Achintya ^c   Chaudhuri, Sheli Sinha ^a   Saba, Luca ^d   Shafique, Shoaib ^e   Nicolaides, Andrew ^f,g   Suri, Jasjit S ^h,i,j  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b TECHNO INDIA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c KALYANI GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^e Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery   (United States)

^f Vascular Screening and Diagnostic Centre   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^h BioMedical Technologies Inc   (United States)

ⁱ AtheroPoint LLC   (United States)

^j IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Bulb detection; Bulb diameter; Carotid video; Operating characteristics; Peak signal to noise ratio; Stroke; Telemedicine; Watermarking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBEDDING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRESERVATION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TELEMEDICINE; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; VIDEORECORDING; WATERMARKING; ALGORITHM; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; COMPUTER SECURITY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; CAROTID ARTERIES; COMPUTER SECURITY; HUMANS; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; STROKE; TELEMEDICINE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84957958930     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: 1573689X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-016-0451-3     Document Type: Article

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