Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume 35, Issue 8 , Pages 1309-1324, August 2009

Automated Segmentation of Ultrasonic Breast Lesions Using Statistical Texture Classification and Active Contour Based on Probability Distance

  • Bo Liu

      Affiliations

    • School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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  • H.D. Cheng

      Affiliations

    • School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
    • Department of Computer Science, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: H. D. Cheng, Ph.D., School of Computer Science and Technology, No. 352 Postal Box, Harbin Institute of Technology. No. 92, Xidazhi Street, Harbin, 150001, P.R. China.
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  • Jianhua Huang

      Affiliations

    • School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
    • ,
  • Jiawei Tian

      Affiliations

    • Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
    • ,
  • Jiafeng Liu

      Affiliations

    • School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
    • ,
  • Xianglong Tang

      Affiliations

    • School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

Received 27 April 2008; received in revised form 28 November 2008; accepted 10 December 2008. published online 29 May 2009.

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PII: S0301-5629(08)00597-8

doi:10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.12.007

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume 35, Issue 8 , Pages 1309-1324, August 2009

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