Three-dimensional segmentation of high-frequency ultrasound echo signals from dissected lymph nodes

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1370-1373

  Coron, Alain ^a,c   Laugier, Pascal ^a,c   Mamou, Jonathan ^b   Feleppa, Ernest J ^b   Hata, Masaki ^d   Machi, Junji ^d   Yanagihara, Eugene ^d  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c RIVERSIDE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d KUAKINI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

High frequency; lymph node; Quantitative; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

3-D ULTRASOUND; 3D SEGMENTATION; ABSOLUTE MEASUREMENTS; CANCER PATIENTS; CROSS SECTION; DATA SETS; FAT LAYER; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUNDS; IMAGING METHOD; LYMPH NODE; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; MEAN VALUES; NODAL METASTASIS; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; QUANTITATIVE; REGION-BASED SEGMENTATION; SCATTERER SIZE; SEGMENTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL SEGMENTATION; ULTRASOUND ECHO;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BODY FLUIDS; D REGION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC DEVICES; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 67649371719     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2008.0332     Document Type: Conference Paper

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