Ultrasound image texture analysis for characterizing intramuscular fat content of live beef cattle

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 191-205

  Kim, Nam Deuk ^a   Amin, Viren ^a,b   Wilson, Doyle ^b   Rouse, Gene ^b   Udpa, Satish ^a  

^a Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beef quality grading; Co occurrence matrix; Texture analysis; Tissue characterization; Ultrasound; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BEEF; FORECASTING; GRADING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE TEXTURE; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEXTURES; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CO-OCCURRENCE-MATRIX; QUALITY GRADING; TEXTURE ANALYSIS; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; WAVELETS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CATTLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIPID ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; SURFACE PROPERTY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0032429589     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016173469802000304     Document Type: Article

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