Wavelet-based segmentation for fetal ultrasound texture images

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4684 III, Issue , 2002, Pages 1547-1552

  Zayed, Nourhan ^a   Badwi, A ^b   Elsayad, A ^a   Elsherif, M ^a   Youssef, A ^b  

^a ELECTRONICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Egypt)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Fuzzy c means clustering; Medical image processing; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; VECTORS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0036028352     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.467122     Document Type: Article

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