Broadband ultrasound attenuation imaging: Algorithm development and clinical assessment of a region growing technique

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 315-325

  Damilakis, John ^a   Stratakis, John ^a   Perisinakis, Kostas ^a   Gourtsoyiannis, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HEALTH; IMAGE PROCESSING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

REGION OF INTEREST (ROI);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; AUTOMATION; CALCANEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FEMUR; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; POSTMENOPAUSE; ROC CURVE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037148040     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/2/310     Document Type: Article

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