Robust border enhancement and detection for measurement of fetal nuchal translucency in ultrasound images

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1143-1152

  Lee, Yu Bu ^a   Kim, Min Jeong ^a   Kim, Myoung Hee ^a  

^a Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Border detection; Dynamic programming; Edge enhancing filtering; Fetal nuchal translucency; Semi automatic measurement

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; EDGE DETECTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

EDGE-ENHANCING FILTERING; SEMI-AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENT;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION; FETUS; FILTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; NOISE REDUCTION; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; THICKNESS; ULTRASOUND; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 36448974879     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-007-0225-7     Document Type: Article

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