Title :
Ultrasound textural parameters for hepatic masses evaluation
Author :
Youssef, A. ; Shehada, Ramez
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Syst. & Biomed. Eng., Cairo Univ., Egypt
Abstract :
An ultrasound tissue analysis technique that uses a computer-assisted system to investigate benign or malignant tumors is presented. A data acquisition system and textural parameters are described. Some tissue discrimination results are presented
Keywords :
biomedical ultrasonics; liver; medical diagnostic computing; patient diagnosis; benign tumors; computer-assisted system; data acquisition system; hepatic masses evaluation; malignant tumors; medical diagnostic imaging; tissue discrimination; ultrasound textural parameters; ultrasound tissue analysis technique; Biomedical computing; Biomedical engineering; Buffer storage; Cancer; Entropy; Lesions; Liver; Metastasis; Solids; Ultrasonic imaging;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1989. Images of the Twenty-First Century., Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1989.95796
