Characterization of primary and secondary malignant liver lesions from B-mode ultrasound

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1058-1070

  Virmani, Jitendra ^a   Kumar, Vinod ^a   Kalra, Naveen ^b   Khandelwal, Niranjan ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^b POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Atypical metastasis; B Mode liver ultrasound; Focal liver lesions; Genetic algorithm; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Large hepatocellular carcinoma; Metastasis; Primary malignant liver lesion; Secondary malignant liver lesion; Small hepatocellular carcinoma; Support vector machine classifier; Texture analysis; Typical metastasis

Indexed keywords

ATYPICAL METASTASIS; FOCAL LIVER LESIONS; HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA; LIVER LESIONS; LIVER ULTRASOUNDS; METASTASIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE CLASSIFIERS; TEXTURE ANALYSIS; TYPICAL METASTASIS;

DIAGNOSIS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PATHOLOGY; TEXTURES; ULTRASONICS;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84888197907     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-013-9578-7     Document Type: Article

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