Information-theoretic feature detection in ultrasound images

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2638-2642

  Slabaugh, Greg ^a   Unal, Gozde ^a   Chang, Ti Chiun ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; SPECKLE INTENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECKLE NOISE;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; INFORMATION THEORY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION THEORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34047152984     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260254     Document Type: Conference Paper

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