Ultrasound kidney image analysis for computerized disorder identification and classification using content descriptive power spectral features

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 307-317

  Bommanna Raja, K ^a   Madheswaran, M ^b   Thyagarajah, K ^a  

^a PSNA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b Muthyammal Engineering College   (India)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Feature extraction; Image processing; Image segmentation; Kidney classification; Power spectrum analysis; US kidney image analysis

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; KIDNEY CYST; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; KIDNEY STRUCTURE; POWER SPECTRUM; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 34548098430     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-007-9068-x     Document Type: Article

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