Tendinopathy discrimination by use of spatial frequency parameters in ultrasound b-mode images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 608-615

  Bashford, Gregory R ^a,b   Tomsen, Nicholas ^b,c   Arya, Shruti ^d   Burnfield, Judith M ^e   Kulig, Kornelia ^d  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MADONNA REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Classifier; Image analysis; Tendinopathy; Tendon; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPECKLE; TENDONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

SPECKLE ORIENTATION; TENDINOPATHY; ULTRASONIC IMAGES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TENDINITIS; TENDON;

ALGORITHMS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TENDINOPATHY; TENDONS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 43049157779     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2007.912389     Document Type: Article

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