Automatic segmentation of breast lesions on ultrasound

Medical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1652-1659

  Horsch, K ^a   Giger, M L ^a   Venta, L A ^a   Vyborny, C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast sonography; Computer aided diagnosis; Lesion segmentation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; BREAST LESION; BREAST SONOGRAPHY; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; LESION SEGMENTATIONS; MALIGNANT LESION; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; UTILITY FUNCTIONS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST LESION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA BASE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0034844805     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1386426     Document Type: Article

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