A novel edge enhancement method for ultrasound imaging

2nd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, iCBBE 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2414-2417

  Wang, Bo ^a   Liu, Dong C ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptive enhancement; Edge detection; Local histogram processing; Segmentation; Ultrasound image

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BIOCOMMUNICATIONS; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

ADAPTIVE ENHANCEMENT; EDGE DETECTION; LOCAL HISTOGRAM PROCESSING; SEGMENTATION; ULTRASOUND IMAGE;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 50949109722     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICBBE.2008.936     Document Type: Conference Paper

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