Ultrasonic speckle formation, analysis and processing applied to tissue characterization

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 4-5, 2003, Pages 659-675

  Thijssen, Johan M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Filtering; Grey scale; Imaging; Speckle; Texture; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

IMAGE CODING; MEDICAL IMAGING; SPECKLE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

GREY SCALE ENCODING;

TISSUE;

SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037290155     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(02)00173-3     Document Type: Article

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