Information tracking approach to segmentation of ultrasound imagery of the prostate

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1748-1761

  Xu, Robert Sheng ^a   Michailovich, Oleg ^a   Salama, Magdy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION TOOLS; BENEFIT TO COST RATIOS; CLINICAL PRACTICES; DISTRIBUTION TRACKING; ESTIMATION PROCEDURES; IMAGERY DATA; IMAGING MODALITY; IN-SILICO; IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; INFORMATION TRACKING; LOW CONTRAST; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; PIVOTAL QUANTITY; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; PROSTATE CANCERS; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SHAPE PRIORS; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASOUND; TRUS IMAGES; ULTRASOUND IMAGERY; UNIFIED FRAMEWORK;

ESTIMATION; TRACKING (POSITION); ULTRASONICS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PROSTATE; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 77955386508     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1613     Document Type: Article

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