TRUS image segmentation using morphological operators and DBSCAN clustering

Proceedings of the 2011 World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies, WICT 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 898-903

  Manavalan, R ^a   Thangavel, K ^b  

^a K S RANGASAMY COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE AUTONOMOUS   (India)

^b PERIYAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Prostate; Speckle Noise and DBSCAN; TRUS

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY DISPLACEMENTS; DBSCAN ALGORITHM; DIFFUSE BOUNDARIES; GLOBAL CONSISTENCY; IMAGE CONTRASTS; LOCAL-ADAPTIVE; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGES; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATOR; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCERS; RAND INDEX; SEGMENTATION PROCEDURE; SPECKLE NOISE; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASOUND; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASOUND IMAGES; TRUS; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PIXELS; SPECKLE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS; UROLOGY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84857184722     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WICT.2011.6141367     Document Type: Conference Paper

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