Ultrasound-based tissue characterization and classification of fatty liver disease: A screening and diagnostic paradigm

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 75, Issue , 2015, Pages 66-77

  Acharya, U Rajendra ^a,b   Faust, Oliver ^c   Molinari, Filippo ^d   Sree, S Vinitha ^e   Junnarkar, Sameer P ^f   Sudarshan, Vidya ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^c TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^e Global Biomedical Technologies Inc   (United States)

^f TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Computer Aided Diagnosis; Fatty Liver Disease; Non Alcoholic Steatohepatitis; Review; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DECISION MAKING; DISEASES; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE TEXTURE; REVIEWS; TEXTURES; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

AUTOMATED DECISION MAKING; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS(CAD); FATTY LIVER DISEASE; INTEROBSERVER VARIABILITY; LOCAL BINARY PATTERNS; NON-ALCOHOLIC STEATOHEPATITIS; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84920519024     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2014.11.021     Document Type: Article

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