Segmentation of kidney from ultrasound B-mode images with texture-based classification

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 84, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 114-123

  Wu, Chia Hsiang ^a   Sun, Yung Nien ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Boundary extraction; Classification; Dynamic programming; Texture features; Ultrasound images

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA STRUCTURES; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; BOUNDARY EXTRACTION; SONOGRAMS; TEXTURE FEATURES;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; KIDNEY; PHYSICIAN; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 33846023717     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2006.09.009     Document Type: Article

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