Chest wall segmentation in automated 3D breast ultrasound scans

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1273-1281

  Tan, Tao ^a   Platel, Bram ^b   Mann, Ritse M ^a   Huisman, Henkjan ^a   Karssemeijer, Nico ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automated 3D breast ultrasound; Chest wall segmentation; Cylinder fitting

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED 3-D BREAST ULTRASOUNDS; BREAST ULTRASOUND; CHEST WALL; COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION; CYLINDER FITTING; IMAGE INTENSITIES; SEGMENTATION METHODS; ULTRASOUND SIGNAL;

AUTOMATION; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY DEVICE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB; THORAX WALL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AUTOMATED 3D BREAST ULTRASOUND; CHEST WALL SEGMENTATION; CYLINDER FITTING;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; THORACIC WALL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 84878389255     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2012.11.005     Document Type: Article

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