Prostate Cancer Diagnosis Based on Gabor Filter Texture Segmentation of Ultrasound Image

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1485-1488

  Mohamed, S S ^a   Abdel Galil, T K ^a   Salama, M M A ^a   Fenster, A ^b   Downey, D B ^b   Rizkalla, K ^b   El Saadany, E F ^a   Kamel, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Gabor filter; Multi resolution analysis; Prostrate cancer; Ultra sound imaging

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SURGERY;

MULTI-RESOLUTION ANALYSIS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0141830855     PISSN: 08407789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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