Morphological operations by locally variable structuring elements and their applications to region extraction in ultrasound images

Systems and Computers in Japan

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 33-43

  Ito, Masayasu ^a   Tsubai, Masayoshi ^a   Nomura, Akira ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Edge enhancement; Morphology; Region extraction; Ultrasound image; Variable structuring element

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SPECKLE; X RAYS;

EDGE ENHANCEMENT; REGION EXTRACTION; VARIABLE STRUCTURING ELEMENT;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0037334277     PISSN: 08821666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/scj.10196     Document Type: Article

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