Semi-automated segmentation of the prostate gland boundary in ultrasound images using a machine learning approach

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6914, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Diaz, Kristians ^a   Castaneda, Benjamin ^a,b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

^b University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

DISCRETE DYNAMIC CONTOUR (DDC); MANUAL SEGMENTATION; PROSTATE GLAND BOUNDARY;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 43449116665     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.770965     Document Type: Conference Paper

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