Fetal Abdominal Contour Extraction and Measurement in Ultrasound Images

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 169-182

  Yu, Jinhua ^a   Wang, Yuanyuan ^a   Chen, Ping ^b   Shen, Yuzhong ^c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Health Hospital   (China)

^c Old Dominion University   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal circumference; Fetal ultrasound image; Fuzzy clustering; Gradient vector field snake; Image segmentation; Instantaneous coefficient of variation; Iterative randomized Hough transform

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FUZZY CLUSTERING; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ABDOMINAL CIRCUMFERENCE; FETAL ULTRASOUND IMAGE; FITNESS ANALYSIS; GRADIENT VECTOR FIELD SNAKE; INSTANTANEOUS COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; ITERATIVE RANDOMIZED HOUGH TRANSFORM;

FETAL MONITORING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FORCEPS DELIVERY; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ABDOMEN; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 38349091771     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.06.026     Document Type: Article

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