The distribution of the local entropy in ultrasound images

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 431-439

  Zimmer, Y ^a   Akselrod, S ^a   Tepper, R ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Entropy; Ovarian cysts; Probability distribution function; Segmentation; Speckle; Ultrasonic backscatter; Ultrasound images

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SCINTILLATION; SPECKLE; STATISTICAL METHODS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING;

FLUCTUATION; LOCAL ENTROPY HISTOGRAM; LOGNORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OVARIAN CYSTS; PHASORS; RADIO PROPAGATION; STANDARD DEVIATION; ULTRASONIC BACKSCATTERER;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029889803     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0301-5629(95)02064-0     Document Type: Article

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