A Fuzzy Inference System for Identifying Tissue Elasticity Using Ultrasound

Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 31-39

  Kimura, Tadashi ^a   Nagamune, Kouki ^a   Kobashi, Syoji ^a   Kondo, Katsuya ^a   Hata, Yötaka ^a   Taniguchi, Kazuhiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^b KINDEN CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

elasticity; fuzzy inference; tissue characterization; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; PHANTOMS; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

ELASTOGRAPHY; FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEMS; FUZZY INFERENCER; FUZZY MEMBERSHIP FUNCTION; FUZZY RULE BASED; INFERENCE SYSTEMS; MEASUREMENT RANGE; PHANTOMS; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; TISSUE ELASTICITY;

FUZZY INFERENCE;

EID: 34548112049     PISSN: 13430130     EISSN: 18838014     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20965/jaciii.2003.p0031     Document Type: Article

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