Segmentation of abdominal ultrasound images of the prostate using a priori information and an adapted noise filter

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 43-51

  Betrouni, Nacim ^a,b   Vermandel, Maximilien ^a   Pasquier, David ^c   Maouche, Salah ^b   Rousseau, Jean ^a  

^a LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLE   (France)

^c CENTRE OSCAR LAMBRET   (France)

Author keywords

Filtering; Noise; Prostate; Segmentation; Statistical model; Ultrasound images

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; HEURISTIC METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTIMIZATION; ULTRASONICS;

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION; MEDIAN FILTERING; MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERING; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FILTER; FILTRATION; IMAGING; MORPHOLOGY; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; ULTRASOUND;

ABDOMEN; ALGORITHMS; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PROSTATE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 13844298868     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2004.07.007     Document Type: Article

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