A two-dimensional extension of minimum cross entropy thresholding for the segmentation of ultrasound images

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1183-1190

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

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cross entropy; Image processing; Segmentation; Thresholding; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE;

MINIMUM CROSS ENTROPY THRESHOLDING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; OVARY CYST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE;

ALGORITHMS; ENTROPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OVARIAN CYSTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030469379     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(96)00167-6     Document Type: Article

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