A quantitative ultrasound-based method and device for reliably guiding pathologists to metastatic regions of dissected lymph nodes

Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1064-1067

  Coron, Alain ^a,b   Mamou, Jonathan ^c   Saegusa Beecroft, Emi ^d   Oelze, Michael L ^e   Yamaguchi, Tadashi ^f   Hata, Masaki ^d   MacHi, Junji ^d   Yanagihara, Eugene ^d   Laugier, Pascal ^a,b   Feleppa, Ernest J ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c RIVERSIDE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^f CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

high frequency ultrasound; histology; lymph nodes; metastatic cancer; quantitative ultrasound; registration; segmentation

Indexed keywords

HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUNDS; LYMPH NODE; METASTATIC CANCERS; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS; REGISTRATION;

DISEASES; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC DEVICES; ULTRASONICS;

BODY FLUIDS;

EID: 84864857759     PISSN: 19457928     EISSN: 19458452     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2012.6235742     Document Type: Conference Paper

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