METHOD AND SYSTEM OF CHARACTERIZATION OF CAROTID PLAQUE

• Main Author: SUI LEI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 21.02.2013
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; IDENTIFICATION; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; PHYSICS; SURGERY

A system and method of obtaining and analyzing ultrasound images of a patient provides for the identification of specific tissue types in using the image data. A feature vector set of sub-regions of the region of interest is obtained, dimensionally reduced and evaluated using a heuristic to identify...