A discrete region competition approach incorporating weak edge enhancement for ultrasound image segmentation

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 4-5, 2003, Pages 693-704

  Chen, Chung Ming ^a   Horng Shing Lu, Henry ^b   Chen, Yao Lin ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Early vision; Region segmentation; Speckle; Ultrasound image segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; SPECKLE; ULTRASONICS;

SEGMENTATION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0037290156     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(02)00175-7     Document Type: Article

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