An efficient speckle tracking algorithm for ultrasonic imaging

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 215-228

  Li, Pai Chi ^a   Lee, Wei Ning ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Block sum pyramid; Motion estimation; Multilevel search; Speckle tracking; Ultrasonic imaging

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MOTION ESTIMATION; REAL TIME CONTROL; SPECKLE; TRACKING (POSITION); ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

BLOCK SUM PYRAMID; BLOOD FLOW ESTIMATION; COMPUTATION EFFICIENCY; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; ELASTICITY IMAGING; MULTI-LEVEL SEARCH; SPECKLE TRACKING; SUM OF ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCES;

MOTION TRACKING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; SIMULATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TECHNIQUE; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0036820781     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016173460202400402     Document Type: Article

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