An investigation into the feasibility of fetal lung maturity prediction using statistical textural features

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 39-54

  Bhanu Prakash, K N ^a   Ramakrishnan, A G ^a   Suresh, S ^b   Chow, T W P ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b Fetal Care Research Foundation   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Fetal lung; Lung maturity; Prediction; Sonogram; Textural features; Texture

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; TEXTURES; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

FETAL LUNGS; GESTATIONAL AGE; LIVER TISSUE; LUNG MATURITY; LUNG REGIONS; REGION OF INTEREST; SONOGRAM; TEXTURAL FEATURE;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS LIVER; FETUS LUNG MATURITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; PREDICTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0034852825     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016173460102300103     Document Type: Article

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