Automated detection of the tongue surface in sequences of ultrasound images

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 1992, Pages 3001-3007

  Unser, Michael ^a   Stone, Maureen ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FILTER; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NOISE REDUCTION; POLARIZATION; TONGUE DISEASE;

HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MATHEMATICS; MICROCOMPUTERS; SOFTWARE; TONGUE;

EID: 0026652944     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.402934     Document Type: Article

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