Segmentation of ultrasound B-mode images with intensity inhomogeneity correction

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 48-57

  Xiao, Guofang ^b   Brady, Michael ^b   Noble, J Alison ^a,b   Zhang, Yongyue ^b  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contrast enhancement; Intensity inhomogeneity; Markov random field; Segmentation; Tissue classification; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

MARKOV RANDOM FIELD (MRF) METHODS;

ATTENUATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BAYES THEOREM; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BAYES THEOREM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 0036007867     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.981233     Document Type: Article

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