Ultrasound
Data on ultrasound published by researchers at Federal University
Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, April 15th, 2007
Researchers detail in "Complexity curve and grey level co-occurrence matrix in the texture evaluation of breast tumor on ultrasound images," new data in ultrasound. According to recent research from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, "This work aims at investigating texture parameters in distinguishing malign and benign breast tumors on ultrasound images. A rectangular region of interest (ROI) containing the tumor and its neighboring was defined for each image."
"Five parameters were extracted from the complexity curve (CC) of the ROI. Another five parameters were calculated from the grey-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) also for the ROI. The same was carried out for internal...
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