A preprocessing algorithm for edge detection with multiple scales of resolution

European Journal of Ultrasound

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 113-126

  Aarnink, René G ^a   De la Rosette, Jean J M C H ^a   Feitz, Wouter F J ^a   Debruyne, Frans M J ^a   Wijkstra, Hessel ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contour determination; Edge detection; Multiple scales of resolution; Object recognition; Pre processing; Scene segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; FILTER; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; KIDNEY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0030938615     PISSN: 09298266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0929-8266(96)00209-1     Document Type: Article

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