Automatic Extraction of Appendix from Ultrasonography with Self-Organizing Map and Shape-Brightness Pattern Learning.

Accurate diagnosis of acute appendicitis is a difficult problem in practice especially when the patient is too young or women in pregnancy. In this paper, we propose a fully automatic appendix extractor from ultrasonography by applying a series of image processing algorithms and an unsupervised neur...

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Published in:BioMed Research International Vol. 2016; pp. 1 - 11
Main Authors: Kim, Kwang Baek, Song, Doo Heon, Park, Hyun Jun
Format: algorithm diagnostic images equations & formulas pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell 4/12/2016
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