Classification algorithms for quantitative tissue characterization of diffuse liver disease from ultrasound images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 466-478

  Kadah, Yasser M ^a   Farag, Aly A ^a   Zurada, Jacek M ^a   Badawi, Ahmed M ^a   Youssef, Abou Bakr M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; VISUALIZATION;

CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS; MINIMUM CLASSIFICATION ERROR; PARAMETER SET; PATTERN SPACE; QUANTITATIVE TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; VISUAL CRITERIA;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0030215027     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.511750     Document Type: Article

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