Detection of lines and boundaries in speckle images - application to medical ultrasound

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 126-136

  Czerwinski, Richard N ^a   Jones, Douglas L ^a   O'Brien Jr , William D ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SPECKLE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

BOUNDARY DETECTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032587463     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.759114     Document Type: Article

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