Ultrasonic speckle suppression using robust nonlinear wavelet diffusion for LV volume quantification

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 26 III, Issue , 2004, Pages 1609-1612

  Yue, Yong ^a   Croitoru, Mahai M ^b   Bidani, Akhil ^b   Zwischenberger, Joseph B ^c   Clark Jr , John W ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Deformable mode; Denoising; Echocardiography; LV volume; Nonlinear diffusion; Segmentation; Speckle; Ultrasound; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

DEFORMABLE MODES; DENOISING; LV VOLUME; NONLINEAR DIFFUSION; WAVELETS;

CARDIOLOGY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMPULSE RESPONSE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ULTRASONICS; VECTORS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

SPECKLE;

EID: 11144332556     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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