Maximum likelihood segmentation of ultrasound images with rayleigh distribution

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 947-960

  Sarti, Alessandro ^a   Corsi, Cristiana ^a   Mazzini, Elena ^a,b   Lamberti, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

FETAL ECHOGRAPHY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD DISTRIBUTIONS; NONINVASIVE METHOD; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTIONS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 23244437447     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1504017     Document Type: Article

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