Use of Non-Rayleigh Statistics for the Identification of Tumors in Ultrasonic B-Scans of the Breast

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 687-692

  Shankar, P M ^a   Reid, J M ^b   Ortega, H ^b   Piccoli, C W ^b   Goldberg, B B ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; STATISTICAL METHODS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

B-SCAN IMAGES; BREAST TISSUE; NON-RAYLEIGH STATISTICS; TUMORS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0027731401     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.251119     Document Type: Article

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