Adaptive texture feature extraction with application to ultrasonic image analysis

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 132-148

  Huisman, H J ^a   Thijssem, J M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptive; Artificial neural networks; Feature extraction; Texture analysis; Ultrasonic tissue characterization

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEURAL NETWORKS; TEXTURES; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ADAPTIVE; COMPUTER TEXTURE ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINATIVE POWER; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; NONLINEAR RELATIONS; OPTIMAL FEATURE SETS; TEXTURE ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION;

FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CALCIFICATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIMULATION; TECHNIQUE; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0031876032     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016173469802000204     Document Type: Article

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