A tissue-specific adaptive texture filter for medical ultrasound images

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1211-1223

  Stippel, Gjenna ^a,d   Philips, Wilfried ^b   Govaert, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Filtering; Medical ultrasound; Periventricular leukomalacia; Texture; Tissue classification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; FILTRATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TEXTURES; TISSUE;

MEDICAL ULTRASOUND; PERIVENTRICULAR LEUKOMALACIA; SPECKLE FILTERS; TISSUE CLASSIFICATION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LEUKOMALACIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKOMALACIA, PERIVENTRICULAR;

EID: 24944552842     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2005.05.008     Document Type: Article

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