Breast tumor angiogenesis analysis using 3-D power Doppler ultrasound

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6147, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Chang, Ruey Feng ^a   Huang, Sheng Fang ^a   Lee, Yu Hau ^a   Chen, Dar Ren ^b   Moon, Woo Kyung ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANGHUA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

3 D thinning; 3 D ultrasound; Angiogenesis; Breast tumor; Neural network; Power Doppler ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; MORPHOLOGY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

3-D THINNING; 3-D ULTRASOUND; ANGIOGENESIS; BREAST TUMOR; NEURAL NETWORK; POWER DOPPLER ULTRASOUND;

TUMORS;

EID: 33745372768     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.650287     Document Type: Conference Paper

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