Assessment of significance of features acquired from thyroid ultrasonograms in Hashimoto's disease

BioMedical Engineering Online

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Koprowski, Robert ^a   Zieleźnik, Witold ^b   Wróbel, Zygmunt ^a   Małyszek, Justyna ^b   Stepień, Beata ^b   Wójcik, Waldemar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b Internal Medicine Practice   (Poland)

^c LUBLIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Hashimoto; Image processing; Thyroid; Ultrasonograms

Indexed keywords

HASHIMOTO; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; LONGITUDINAL SECTION; METHODS OF ANALYSIS; THYROID; ULTRASONOGRAMS; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

DECISION TREES; IMAGE PROCESSING; ULTRASONICS;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; THYROID GLAND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; THYROID GLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864915912     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1475925X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-925X-11-48     Document Type: Article

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