Fuzzy local binary patterns for ultrasound texture characterization

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5112 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 750-759

  Iakovidis, Dimitris K ^a   Keramidas, Eystratios G ^a   Maroulis, Dimitris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fuzzy; Local binary patterns; Support vector machines; Thyroid nodules; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUZZY INFERENCE; FUZZY LOGIC; HEALTH; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; TEXTURES; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION METHODS; FEATURE VECTOR (FV); FUZZIFICATION; FUZZY FEATURE EXTRACTION; HEIDELBERG (CO); INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LOCAL BINARY PATTERN (LBP); LOCAL PATTERNS; LOCAL TEXTURE; NON INVASIVE; PRIMARY CARE; SPECKLE NOISES; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; TEXTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; TEXTURE CHARACTERIZATIONS; ULTRASOUND (US) IMAGES;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 47749111755     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69812-8_74     Document Type: Conference Paper

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