Structure noise reduction of ultrasonic signals using artificial neural network adaptive filtering

Ultrasonics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 325-328

  Liu, Zhenqing ^a   Lu, Mingda ^a   Wei, Moan ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptive filtering; Flaw echo; Highly scattering material; Neural network

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; ADAPTIVE FILTERING; BACKPROPAGATION; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FLAW ECHO; NOISE REDUCTION; ULTRASONIC SIGNAL;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0031166240     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-624X(97)00009-7     Document Type: Article

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