Classification of scattering media within benign and malignant breast tumors based on ultrasound texture-feature-based and Nakagami-parameter images

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2198-2207

  Liao, Yin Yin ^a   Tsui, Po Hsiang ^b   Li, Chia Hui ^a   Chang, King Jen ^c   Kuo, Wen Hung ^c   Chang, Chien Cheng ^d   Yeh, Chih Kuang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

breast tumor classification; breast ultrasound; Nakagami parametric image; texture feature parametric image

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TEXTURES; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

BENIGN AND MALIGNANT TUMORS; BREAST TUMOR CLASSIFICATIONS; BREAST ULTRASOUND; FISHER'S LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GRAY LEVEL CO-OCCURRENCE MATRIX; PARAMETRIC IMAGE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; ULTRASONIC TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION;

IMAGE TEXTURE;

EID: 79953669204     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3566064     Document Type: Article

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