New maximum likelihood motion estimation schemes for noisy ultrasound images

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 455-463

  Cohen, Boaz ^a   Dinstein, Its'hak ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Block matching; Maximum likelihood; Motion estimation; Rayleigh distributed noise; Ultrasound images

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MOTION ESTIMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; VECTORS;

NOISY ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036467012     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(01)00053-X     Document Type: Article

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