Characterization of Spiculation on Ultrasound Lesions

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 111-121

  Huang, Sheng Fang ^a   Chang, Ruey Feng ^a   Chen, Dar Ren ^b   Moon, Woo Kyung ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

3 D ultrasound; Breast tumor; Spiculation detection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SKIN; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS; TUMORS; ULTRASONICS;

ARRAY SCANNING TECHNIQUE; SPICULATION DETECTION;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 0347968039     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.819918     Document Type: Article

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