Compensation of log-compressed images for 3-D ultrasound

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 239-253

  Sanches, João M ^a   Marques, Jorge S ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

3 D ultrasound; Image compression; Multiplicative noise; Speckle

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SPECKLE;

MULTIPLICATIVE NOISE;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DATA ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0037298591     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(02)00710-X     Document Type: Article

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