Transcranial ultrasonography system for visualizing skull and brain surface aided by fuzzy expert system

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1360-1373

  Hata, Yutaka ^a   Kobashi, Syoji ^a   Kondo, Katsuya ^a   Kitamura, Yuri T ^b   Yanagida, Toshio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain; Fuzzy expert system; Fuzzy system; Human skull; Transcranial sonography

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASES; FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TISSUE;

FUZZY EXPERT SYSTEM; HUMAN SKULL; TRANSCRANIAL SONOGRAPHY;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EXPERT SYSTEM; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 29144487088     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2005.855593     Document Type: Article

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