MRI plaque imaging reveals high-risk carotid plaques especially in diabetic patients irrespective of the degree of stenosis.
Lorena EspositoT. SaamPeter HeiderAngelina BockelbrinkJaroslav PelisekD. SeppRegina FeurerClaudia WinklerThomas LiebigKatrin HolzerOlivier PaulySuwad SadikovicBernhard HemmerHolger PoppertPublished in: BMC Medical Imaging (2010)
Keyphrases
- carotid artery
- high risk
- diabetic patients
- diabetes mellitus
- risk factors
- ultrasound images
- magnetic resonance imaging
- deformable models
- fully automated
- region growing
- medical imaging
- manual segmentation
- risk assessment
- cardiovascular disease
- image analysis
- medical images
- active shape model
- risk management
- high resolution
- blood pressure
- image processing
- speckle noise
- statistical methods
- contrast enhanced
- prostate cancer
- anatomical structures
- automatic segmentation
- x ray
- medical image analysis
- data mining
- mri data
- shape model
- machine learning