Fetal lung maturity analysis using ultrasound image features.

This pilot study was carried out to find the feasibility of analyzing the maturity of the fetal lung using ultrasound images. Data were collected from normal pregnant women at intervals of two weeks from the gestation age of 24 to 38 weeks. Images were acquired at two centers located at different ge...

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Gepubliceerd in:	IEEE Transactions on information technology in biomedicine 6, 1 (2002).
Hoofdauteur:	Bhanu Prakash, K.N
Formaat:	Artikel
Taal:	English
Onderwerpen:	Classification accuracy. Feature extraction. Fetal liver. Fetal lung maturity analysis. Fractal dimension. Histogram. Image classification. Immature class. K-nearest neighbor classification. Lacunarity. Mature class. Modified k-nearest neighbor classification. Multilayer perceptron. Nearest neighbor classification. Normal pregnant women. Pulmonary risk. Radial basis function network. Region of interest. Support vector machines. Textural features. Ultrasound image features.