Fully automatic lesion boundary detection in ultrasound breast images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6512, Issue PART 3, 2007, Pages

  Yap, M H ^a   Edirisinghe, E A ^a   Bez, H E ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary detection; Isotropic Gaussian; Multifractal; Region of interest; Segmentation; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GRADIENT METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

BOUNDARY DETECTION; HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION; ISOTROPIC GAUSSIAN; REGION-OF-INTEREST;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 36249000008     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.708625     Document Type: Conference Paper

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