DocumentCode
3226853
Title
Quantitative examination of soft tissue ultrasound elastograms
Author
Przytulska, M. ; Kulikowski, J.L.
Author_Institution
IBBE PAS, Warsaw, Poland
fYear
2009
fDate
4-7 Nov. 2009
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
4
Abstract
There are presented methods of computer-aided statistical analysis of ultrasound elastograms. It is described an approach consisting in initial segmentation of elastograms visualizing low-elasticity segments distribution in the tissue of an examined biological organ and in statistical analysis of this distribution. It was observed a good correlation between the values of some statistics and medical specialists´ description of the elastograms. The ways of continuation of works aimed at improvement of the elastograms-based diagnosic methods are suggested.
Keywords
biological organs; biological tissues; biomechanics; biomedical ultrasonics; elasticity; image segmentation; medical image processing; statistical distributions; biological organ; computer-aided statistical analysis; elastograms-based diagnosic methods; image segmentation; low-elasticity segment distribution; soft tissue; statistical distribution; ultrasound elastograms; Biological tissues; Biomedical imaging; Elasticity; Force measurement; Lesions; Liver; Medical diagnostic imaging; Statistical analysis; Ultrasonic imaging; Visualization; image processing; image segmentation; ultrasound elastography;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine, 2009. ITAB 2009. 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Larnaca
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-5379-5
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-5379-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ITAB.2009.5394333
Filename
5394333
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