3-D US frame positioning using speckle decorrelation and image registration

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 801-812

  Chang, Ruey Feng ^b   Wu, Wen Jie ^b   Chen, Dar Ren ^a   Chen, Wei Ming ^b   Shu, Wei ^b   Lee, Jau Hong ^a   Jeng, Long Bin ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

3 D ultrasound; Frame positioning; Image registration; Speckle decorrelation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; SPECKLE;

SPECKLE DECORRELATION;

ULTRASONICS;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0038386543     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(03)00036-X     Document Type: Article

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