An incremental neural network for tissue segmentation in ultrasound images

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 187-195

  Kurnaz, Mehmet Nadir ^a   Dokur, Zümray ^a   Ölmez, Tamer ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Image segmentation; Incremental neural network; Texture analysis; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM (DCT); FEATURE VECTORS; INCREMENTAL NEURAL NETWORK; TEXTURE ANALYSIS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERT SYSTEM; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEARNING ALGORITHM; ULTRASOUND;

CONNECTIVE TISSUE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); TURKEY;

EID: 33846902040     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2006.10.010     Document Type: Article

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