Classification of Atherosclerotic Carotid Plaques Using Gray Level Morphological Analysis on Ultrasound images.
Edward KyriacouConstantinos S. PattichisMarios S. PattichisAndreas MavrommatisS. PanagiotouChristina I. ChristodoulouStavros K. KakkosAndrew NicolaidesPublished in: AIAI (2006)
Keyphrases
- ultrasound images
- gray level
- carotid artery
- morphological analysis
- speckle noise
- gray scale
- texture analysis
- image segmentation
- medical ultrasound
- input image
- region growing
- edge detector
- co occurrence
- deformable models
- speckle reduction
- textural features
- gray level images
- texture images
- texture features
- feature extraction
- computer vision
- pixel values
- fully automated
- feature vectors
- fractal dimension
- image processing
- active shape model
- contrast enhancement
- magnetic resonance imaging
- image analysis
- machine learning
- fully automatic