• Conference Object  

      Despeckle filtering in ultrasound video of the common carotid artery 

      Loizou, Christos P.; Kasparis, Takis; Christodoulides, Paul; Theofanous, Charoula; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2012)
      Noise reduction is essential for increasing the visual quality or as a preprocessing step for further automated analysis in video sequences and video coding. The objective of this work was to investigate four different ...
    • Conference Object  

      Video segmentation of the common carotid artery intima media complex 

      Loizou, Christos P.; Kasparis, Takis; Papakyriakou, P.; Christodoulou, L.; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2012)
      The correct identification of the intima-media thickness (IMT) of the common carotid artery (CCA) walls has a high clinical relevance as it represents one of the most reliable predictor for future cardiovascular events. ...