Optimized graph-based segmentation for ultrasound images

Neurocomputing

Volumn 129, Issue , 2014, Pages 216-224

  Huang, Qinghua ^a   Bai, Xiao ^b   Li, Yingguang ^a   Jin, Lianwen ^a   Li, Xuelong ^c  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

Evolutionary learning; Graph theory; Particle swarm optimization; Ultrasound image segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893730028     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: 18728286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2013.09.038     Document Type: Article

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