Differentiation of intracardiac tumors and thrombi by echocardiographic tissue characterization: Comparison of an artificial neural network and human observers

Echocardiography

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 115-126

  Gerber, Thomas C ^a   Foley, David A ^a   Zheng, Yi ^b   Behrenbeck, Thomas ^a   Tajik, A Jamil ^a   Seward, James B ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intracardiac masses; Neural networks; Pattern recognition; Transesophageal ultrasound; Ultrasonic tissue characterization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBUS; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 0034090242     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2000.tb01112.x     Document Type: Article

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