Characterization of thyroid nodules by 3-D contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2229-2232

  Carraro, Roberta ^a   Molinari, Filippo ^b   Deandrea, Maurilio ^d   Garberoglio, Roberto ^c   Suri, Jasjit S ^e,f  

^a Viglia Sri   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c Italia   (Italy)

^d MAURIZIANO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

^f Biomedical Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

CONSTRAST AGENT; CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND; CONTRAST-ENHANCED IMAGES; HIGH RESOLUTION ULTRASOUND; MORPHOLOGICAL OPENING; NEEDLE BIOPSY; STRUCTURING ELEMENT; THYROID NODULE;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; THYROID NODULE; THYROID TUMOR; VASCULARIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 61849151465     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649639     Document Type: Conference Paper

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