Energy functions for the segmentation of ultrasound volume data using active rays

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2000, Pages 2274-2277

  Martin M ^a   Rodriguez E ^a   Tejada, D ^a   Alberola, C ^a   Ruiz, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; ULTRASONICS; HEURISTIC METHODS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; SPECKLE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; ENERGY FUNCTIONS; HEURISTIC SEARCH; MINIMAL ENERGY; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; PROBABILISTIC RELAXATION; ULTRASOUND VOLUME; ECHOGRAPHISTS; PROBABILISTIC RELAXATION SCHEME; ULTRASOUND VOLUME DATA SEGMENTATION;

SIGNAL PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0033709179     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2000.859293     Document Type: Conference Paper

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