Automatic contouring for breast tumors in 2-D sonography

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 7 VOLS, Issue , 2005, Pages 3225-3228

  Huang, Yu Len ^a   Chen, Dar Ren ^b  

^a TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANGHUA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL (ACM); AUTOMATIC CONTOURING; BREAST TUMORS; SONOGRAPHY; WATERSHED TRANSFORM;

TUMORS;

EID: 33846940306     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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