Automated ultrasonic measurement of fetal nuchal translucency using dynamic programming

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4225 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 157-167

  Lee, Yu Bu ^a   Kim, Myoung Hee ^a  

^a Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; EDGE DETECTION; MEDICAL IMAGING;

ECHOGENIC LINES; ELECTRONIC CALIPERS; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY (NT);

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 33845206406     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11892755_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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