A Survey on Thyroid Ultrasound Image Analysis

Abstract

Ultrasound imaging plays a prominent role in the diagnosis of thyroid gland.Imaging helps to detect and classify the abnormalities of thyroid gland.This survey focuses on thyroid ultrasound image features that are important for diagnosis.Various researchers have developed different techniques to detect and classify the thyroid nodules.A brief survey of various techniques developed for the analysis of thyroid ultrasound images is carried out in this paper.