Image texture analysis of sonograms in chronic inflammations of thyroid gland

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1531-1543

  Smutek, Daniel ^a,d   Šára, Radim ^b   Sucharda, Petr ^a   Tjahjadi, Tardi ^c   Švec, Martin ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d II Interní Klinika 3   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Classification; Feature selection; Hashimoto's lymphocytic thyroiditis; Sonography; Texture analysis; Thyroid gland

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

AUTOMATIC TEXTURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE TEXTURE ANALYSIS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; B SCAN; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFLAMMATION; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 0242527043     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(03)01049-4     Document Type: Article

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