Thyroid segmentation and volume estimation in ultrasound images

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1348-1357

  Chang, Chuan Yu ^a   Lei, Yue Fong ^b   Tseng, Chin Hsiao ^c   Shih, Shyang Rong ^c  

^a NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b Young Lighting Technology Inc   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Particle swarm optimization (PSO); Radial basis function (RBF) neural networks; Region growing; Thyroid segmentation

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS; COMPLETE SOLUTIONS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CT IMAGE; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM; POINTS OF INTEREST; PRECISE MEASUREMENTS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NEURAL NETWORKS; REGION GROWING; REGION SEGMENTATION; THYROID GLANDS; THYROID VOLUME; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; VOLUME ESTIMATIONS;

ATTITUDE CONTROL; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; IONIZING RADIATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); ULTRASONICS;

RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; NERVE CELL NETWORK; THYROID GLAND; THYROID GLAND EXAMINATION; THYROID SEGMENTATION; THYROID WEIGHT;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID GLAND; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 77952577535     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2041003     Document Type: Article

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