Segmentation of White Matter Flaring Areas in Ultrasound Images of Very-Low-Birth-Weight Preterm Infants

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 991-1004

  Vansteenkiste, Ewout ^a   Govaert, Paul ^b   Conneman, Nikk ^b   Lequin, Maarten ^b   Philips, Wilfried ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Flaring; Mathematical morphology; Medical ultrasound; Periventricular leukomalacia; Texture

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MORPHOLOGY; TEXTURES; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ACTIVE CONTOUR METHOD; FLARING; INTERACTIVE ALGORITHMS; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND; PERIVENTRICULAR LEUKOMALACIA; RECONSTRUCTION OPERATIONS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHTS;

MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN TISSUE; CHOROID PLEXUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL EXPERT; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 67349186916     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.12.009     Document Type: Article

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