Lesion boundary detection in ultrasound breast images

2011 1st Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering, MECBME 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 320-323

  Abdelrahman, Alwaleed ^a   Hamid, Omer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEZIRA   (Sudan)

Author keywords

Boundary detection; breast lesion; noise estimation; Rayleigh distribution; ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY DETECTION; BREAST LESION; NOISE ESTIMATION; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTIONS; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; EDGE DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 79957892682     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MECBME.2011.5752130     Document Type: Conference Paper

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