A textural approach based on gabor functions for texture edge detection in ultrasound images

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 515-534

  Chen, Chung Ming ^a   Lu, Henry Horng Shing ^b   Han, Ko Chung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Difference mask; Distance map; Early vision model; Edge detection; Ultrasound image; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; TEXTURES;

TEXTURE EDGE DETECTION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035012295     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(00)00323-9     Document Type: Article

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