Ultrasound Elastography Based on Multiscale Estimations of Regularized Displacement Fields

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 153-163

  Pellot Barakat, Claire ^a,b   Frouin, Frédérique ^c   Insana, Michael F ^a   Herment, Alain ^c  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Motion estimation; Multiscale optimization; Optical flow; Regularization; Ultrasound elastography

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTION ESTIMATION; OPTICAL FLOWS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC EFFECTS; VECTORS;

MULTISCALE OPTIMIZATION; REGULARIZATION; ULTRASOUND ELASTOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BREAST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BREAST; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOTION; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 1342324769     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.822825     Document Type: Article

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