Automated classification of liver disorders using ultrasound images

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 3163-3172

  Minhas, Fayyaz Ul Amir Afsar ^a   Sabih, Durre ^b   Hussain, Mutawarra ^c  

^a Colorado State University   (United States)

^b Multan Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy   (Pakistan)

^c PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Fatty liver disease; Heterogeneous liver; Support vector machines; Ultrasound; Wavelet packet transform

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FATTY LIVER; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KERNEL METHOD; LIPID STORAGE; LIVER; LIVER BLOOD VESSEL; MEDICAL EXPERT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; WAVELET ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; METHODOLOGY;

FATTY LIVER; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 84867303561     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: 1573689X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-011-9803-1     Document Type: Article

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