Computer-Aided Diagnosis Based on Speckle Patterns in Ultrasound Images

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1251-1261

  Moon, Woo Kyung ^a   Lo, Chung Ming ^b   Huang, Chiun Sheng ^c   Chen, Jeon Hor ^d,e   Chang, Ruey Feng ^b  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Computer assisted diagnosis; Spatial compound imaging; Speckle; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER ROC CURVE (AUC); AVERAGE NUMBERS; B-MODE IMAGES; BACKSCATTERED ECHOES; BREAST CANCER; BREAST MASS; BREAST ULTRASOUND; CAD SYSTEM; CLASSIFICATION APPROACH; COMPOUND IMAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FIRST-ORDER; MALIGNANT LESION; NUMBER DENSITY; PIXEL VALUES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVE ANALYSIS; REGION OF INTEREST; SECOND ORDER STATISTICS; SPATIAL RELATIONS; SPECKLE PATTERNS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; TUMOR CHARACTERIZATION; TUMOR SEGMENTATION; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PIXELS; SCATTERING; TUMORS; ULTRASONICS;

SPECKLE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BENIGN TUMOR; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INVASIVE PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; INVASIVE TUBULAR CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECKLE PATTERN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 84861877350     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2012.02.029     Document Type: Article

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