A novel method for automatic contour extraction of ultrasonic breast lesions

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1384-1387

  Yeh, Chih Kuang ^a   Chen, Yung Sheng ^b   Fan, Wei Zhe ^b   Chen, Wen Shiang ^c  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Closure noise; Degraded paint character; Iterative disk expansion method; Ultrasound images

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

CLINICAL IMAGES; CLOSURE NOISE; CONTOUR EXTRACTION; DEGRADED PAINT CHARACTERS; ITERATIVE DISK EXPANSION METHODS; ULTRASONIC BREAST LESIONS;

TUMORS;

EID: 33847151642     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1603112     Document Type: Conference Paper

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