Interactive vs. automatic ultrasound image segmentation methods for staging hepatic lipidosis

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 143-153

  Weijers, Gert ^a   Starke, Alexander ^b   Haudum, Alois ^b   Thijssen, Johan M ^a   Rehage, Jürgen ^b   De Korte, Chris L ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal model; Cattle; Fatty liver; Image analysis; Image parameters; Image segmentation; Lipidosis; Liver; Postprocessing; Quantitative ultrasound; Ultrasound parameters

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; DISEASES; GRADING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LINEAR REGRESSION; LIVER; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ANIMAL MODEL; CATTLE; FATTY LIVER; IMAGE PARAMETERS; LIPIDOSIS; POSTPROCESSING; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS; ULTRASOUND PARAMETERS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CATTLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISEASE MODEL; ECHOGRAPHY; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AREA UNDER CURVE; BIOPSY; CATTLE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 77955451770     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016173461003200303     Document Type: Article

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