Accurate detection of prostate boundary in ultrasound images using biologically-inspired spiking neural network

2007 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communications Systems, ISPACS 2007 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 308-311

  El dahshan, E ^a   Redi, A ^a   Hassanien, Aboul Ella ^b   Xiao, Kai ^b,c  

^a Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

^b KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECOGNITION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIOLOGY; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

BOUNDARY DETECTION ALGORITHMS; MEDIAN FILTERS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 43749116409     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISPACS.2007.4445885     Document Type: Conference Paper

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