The effect of back-scan conversion on the texture features of ultrasound image

Chao Wei Lai, Jenho Tsao, Men Tzung Lo

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Abstract

Ultrasound is an important way of physical examination nowadays. Many literatures tried to find a quantified standard for diagnosing ultrasonic images; however, they neglected the effect of scan-conversion on image textures. This paper provides a preprocessing method, which practically conforms to the ultrasound image formats, and then compares the effect of the preprocessing method. Several images of sponges were used to evaluate the effect of the preprocessing because of their nearly homogeneous texture. It was found that the spread of standard deviations of the extracted features got narrower, at best 4 times, with preprocessing than that without preprocessing. The back-scan conversion is indispensable for the analysis of ultrasound images using features sensitive to depth and orientation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2005 27th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE-EMBS 2005
Pages1879-1882
Number of pages4
StatePublished - 2005
Event2005 27th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE-EMBS 2005 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 1 Sep 20054 Sep 2005

Publication series

NameAnnual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings
Volume7 VOLS
ISSN (Print)0589-1019

Conference

Conference2005 27th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE-EMBS 2005
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period1/09/054/09/05

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