Edge detection in prostatic ultrasound images using integrated edge maps

Ultrasonics

Volumn 36, Issue 1-5, 1998, Pages 635-642

  Aarnink, René G ^a   Pathak, Sayan Dev ^b   De La Rosette, Jean J M C H ^a   Debruyne, Frans M J ^a   Kim, Yongmin ^b   Wijkstra, Hessel ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive filtering; Edge detection; Edge resolution; Image processing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL METHODS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

STANDARD DEVIATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PROSTATE; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PROSTATE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0031987371     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-624X(97)00126-1     Document Type: Article

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