Selective contrast enhancement of prostate ultrasound images using sticks with high-level information

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4319, Issue , 2001, Pages 615-622

  Gong, L ^a   Pathak, S D ^a   Kim, Y ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast enhancement; Image segmentation; Prostate; Sticks; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; TUMORS;

PROSTATE CANCER (PCA); ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0034866352     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.428107     Document Type: Conference Paper

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