Handbook of medical imaging
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Pattern Recognition in Medical Imaging
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Pattern Recognition, Third Edition
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Segmentation of the carotid intima-media region in B-mode ultrasound images
Image and Vision Computing
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Atherosclerosis is a cardiovascular disease very widespread into population. The intima-media thickness (IMT) is a reliable early indicator of this pathology. The IMT is measured by the doctor using images acquired with a B-scan ultrasound and this fact presents several problems. Image segmentation can detect the IMT throughout the artery length in an automatic way. This paper 1 presents an effective segmentation method based on the use of a neural network ensemble. The obtained results show the ability of the method to extract the IMT contour in ultrasound images.