Quantitative Evaluation of Diagnostic Information around the Contours in Ultrasound Images

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Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 329-339

  Ito, Masayasu ^a,b   Chono, Tomoaki ^b   Sekiguchi, Megumu ^b   Shiina, Tsuyoshi ^c   Mori, Hideaki ^d   Tohno, Eriko ^c  

^a TOKYO DENKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^d KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

contour; K distributions; quantitative diagnostic information; Rayleigh distributions; ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009544194     PISSN: 13461176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3179/jjmu.33.329     Document Type: Article

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