Line and boundary detection in speckle images

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1700-1714

  Czerwinski, Richard N ^a,b   Jones, Douglas L ^a,c   O'Brien Jr , William D ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Optimal detection; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE; RADAR IMAGING; SPECKLE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; ULTRASONICS;

SPECKLE IMAGES;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032290312     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.730381     Document Type: Article

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