Ultrasonic data compression via parameter estimation

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 313-325

  Cardoso, Guilherme ^a   Saniie, Jafar ^a  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORM (CWT); ULTRASONIC ECHO; ULTRASONIC REFLECTORS; ULTRASONIC SIGNALS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE COMPRESSION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DATA COMPRESSION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 15844414566     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1406557     Document Type: Article

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