Watershed segmentation for breast tumor in 2-D sonography

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 625-632

  Huang, Yu Len ^a   Chen, Dar Ren ^b  

^a TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Breast sonography; Neural network; Textural analysis; Tumor contour approximation; Watershed transform

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NEURAL NETWORKS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; TUMORS; ULTRASONICS;

2-D SONOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGICAL WATERSHED SEGMENTATION; REGIONS-OF-INTEREST (ROI);

MEDICINE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COVARIANCE; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 2942557015     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2003.12.001     Document Type: Article

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