Inspec keywords: fuzzy set theory; pattern clustering; Gaussian processes; tumours; image segmentation; medical image processing; biomedical ultrasonics; speckle

Other keywords: acoustic enhancement; multiscale Gaussian kernel-induced fuzzy C-means clustering method; speckle noise; estimated regions; F-measure; Hausdroff difference; automated tumour segmentation; controlling parameter estimation; shadowing effects; active contour; breast US images; lesion detection; hybrid segmentation method; multiscale Gaussian kernel-induced FCM; image quality; dice similarity; spatial bias correction; MsGKFCM_S clustering method; region-scalable fitting energy function; curve evolution process; Jaccard index; breast ultrasound images; shape similarity

Subjects: Sonic and ultrasonic radiation (biomedical imaging/measurement); Combinatorial mathematics; Other topics in statistics; Optical, image and video signal processing; Combinatorial mathematics; Sonic and ultrasonic radiation (medical uses); Other topics in statistics; Biology and medical computing; Computer vision and image processing techniques; Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics; Algebra, set theory, and graph theory; Data handling techniques; Patient diagnostic methods and instrumentation