Thyroid texture representation via noise resistant image features

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 560-565

  Keramidas, Eystratios G ^a   Iakovidis, Dimitris K ^a   Maroulis, Dimitris ^a   Dimitropoulos, Nikos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b EUROMEDICA Medical Center   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; TEXTURES; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS; DATA SETS; FUZZY FEATURES; FUZZYFICATION; IMAGE FEATURES; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; LOCAL BINARY PATTERNS; NODULE DETECTION; SPECKLE NOISES; TEXTURAL FEATURES; TEXTURE REPRESENTATION; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 51849166118     PISSN: 10637125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CBMS.2008.108     Document Type: Conference Paper

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