Ultrasonic tissue characterization by texture analysis: Elimination of tissue-independent factors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 768, Issue , 1987, Pages 128-134

  Schlaps, Dieter ^a   Zuna, Ivan ^a   Walz, Michael ^a   Volk, Jochen ^a   Rath, Ulrich ^a   Lorenz, Adolf ^a   van Kaick, Gerhard ^a   Lorenz, Walter J ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; ULTRASONIC WAVES - MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

TEXTURE ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 0023539824     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.940258     Document Type: Conference Paper

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2. Schlaps, D. et al., Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization Using a Diagnostic Expert System, in Information Processing in Medical Imaging, S.L. Bacharach (ed.), Martinus Nij- hoff Publ. 1986
3. Haralick, R.M., "Statistical and Structural Approaches to Texture", Proc. IEEE 67, pp. 786-804. 1979.
4. Connors, R.W., Harlow, C.A., "A Theoretical Comparison of Texture Algorithms", IEEE Trans Patt Anal Mach Intell, Vol. PAMI-2, No 3, May 1980.