Three-dimensional region-based segmentation for breast tumors on sonography

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 835-846

  Huang, Yu Len ^a   Chen, Dar Ren ^b   Chang, Shun Chan ^a  

^a TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANGHUA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

3 dimensional region growing; Breast cancer; Image segmentation; Sonography; Tumor contour approximation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; D REGION; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL EXPERIENCE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENT SHAPES; NEAREST NEIGHBOR FILTERS; REGION GROWING; REGION-BASED SEGMENTATION;

TUMORS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878099797     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: 15509613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/ultra.32.5.835     Document Type: Article

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