Extraction of quantitative three-dimensional information from ultrasonic volumetric images of cirrhotic liver

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers and Short Notes and Review Papers

Volumn 39, Issue 5 B, 2000, Pages 3266-3269

  Yamaguchi, Tadashi ^a   Hachiya, Hiroyuki ^a   Kato, Kazuki ^a   Fukuda, Hiroyuki ^a   Ebara, Masaaki ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3D information; CFAR processing; Liver cirrhosis; Nodule structure; Quantitative diagnosis; Scatterer distribution

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING;

CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; NODULE STRUCTURE; ULTRASONIC VOLUMETRIC IMAGES;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0033689207     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/jjap.39.3266     Document Type: Article

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