Segmentation methodology for automated classification and differentiation of soft tissues in multiband images of high-resolution ultrasonic transmission tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1068-1078

  Jeong, Jeong Won ^a,b   Shin, Dae C ^a,b   Do, Synho ^a,b   Marmarelis, Vasilis Z ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Active contour segmentation; Multiband imaging; Soft tissue differentiation; Ultrasound transmission tomography; Unsupervised clustering

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR SEGMENTATION; HIGH-RESOLUTION ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (HUTT); MULTIBAND IMAGING; SOFT TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; SOFT TISSUES; UNSUPERVISED CLUSTERING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; VISCERA;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VISCERA;

EID: 33746881445     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.877443     Document Type: Article

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