Improved ultrasound speckle motion tracking using nonlinear diffusion filtering

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4325, Issue , 2001, Pages 453-461

  El Sharkawy, A E M ^a   Abd Elmoniem, K ^a   Youssef, A B M ^a   Kadah, Y M ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

2D speckle tracking; Nonlinear diffusion filtering; Tissue motion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION THEORY; MAPPING; MOTION ESTIMATION; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SPECKLE;

NONLINEAR DIFFUSION FILTERING; SPECKLE MOTION TRACKING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0034872804     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.428224     Document Type: Article

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