Classification and estimation of ultrasound speckle noise with neural networks

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Bio-Informatics and Biomedical Engineering, BIBE 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 245-252

  Wachowiak, M P ^a   Elmaghraby, A S ^a   Smolikova, R ^a   Zurada, J M ^a  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive filters; Additive noise; Biomedical computing; Computer networks; Computer science; Neural networks; Parameter estimation; Speckle; Statistical distributions; Ultrasonic imaging

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ADDITIVE NOISE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPLEX NETWORKS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NEURAL NETWORKS; SPECKLE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

BIOMEDICAL COMPUTING; BIOMEDICAL ULTRASOUND; POSTPROCESSING METHODS; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; ULTRASOUND SPECKLE NOISE;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 0142133929     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIBE.2000.889614     Document Type: Conference Paper

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