Digital Processing for Improvement of Ultrasonic Abdominal Images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1983, Pages 66-75

  Liu, C N ^a   Fatemi, Mostafa ^a   Waag, R C ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING - MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

CLINICAL IMAGING; HISTOGRAM-BASED AMPLITUDE MAPPING; RESOLUTION INCREASE BY SPATIAL CONVOLUTION; ULTRASONIC ABDOMINAL IMAGES;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0020762753     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.1983.4307617     Document Type: Article

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