Decision-directed line detection with application to medical ultrasound

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2710, Issue , 1996, Pages 698-708

  Czerwinski, Richard N ^a   Jones, Douglas L ^a   O'Brien Jr , William D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary detection; Detection theory; Image enhancement; Speckle imaging; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PROBABILITY; SPECKLE; TISSUE;

SPECKLE IMAGING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0030316298     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.237974     Document Type: Conference Paper

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