A comparison of material classification techniques for ultrasound inverse imaging

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 1 I, 2002, Pages 457-467

  Zhang, Xiaodong ^a   Broschat, Shira L ^a   Flynn, Patrick J ^b  

^a Washington State University   (United States)

^b University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ATTENUATION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TUMORS;

INVERSE SCATTERING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ULTRASONICS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BAYES THEOREM; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOUND; ULTRASOUND;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0036148568     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1424869     Document Type: Article

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