Unsupervised segmentation of RF echo into regions with different scattering characteristics

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 779-787

  Georgiou, Georgia ^a   Cohen, Fernand S ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL TESTS; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING;

UNSUPERVISED ECHO SEGMENTATION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0032073324     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.677728     Document Type: Article

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