Segmentation of breast cancer masses in ultrasound using radio-frequency signal derived parameters and strain estimates

2008 5th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, Proceedings, ISBI

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 536-539

  Von Lavante, Etienne ^a   Noble, J Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomedical acoustic imaging; Cancer; Image segmentation; Spectral analysis; Strain

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ACOUSTIC IMAGING; CANCER; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STRAIN;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; TUMORS; ULTRASONICS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 51049094192     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2008.4541051     Document Type: Conference Paper

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