Computer vision elastography: Speckle adaptive motion estimation for elastography using ultrasound sequences

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 755-766

  Revell, James ^a   Mirmehdi, Majid ^a   McNally, Donal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Displacement; Elastography; Strain; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTION ESTIMATION; PATHOLOGY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; STRAIN; ULTRASONICS;

DISPLACEMENTS; ELASTOGRAPHY; REGION OF INTEREST (ROI); SPATIOTEMPORAL FILTERING; VIDEO STREAMS;

COMPUTER VISION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; IN VITRO STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; TENDON; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MOVEMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TENDONS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 20744440323     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2005.848331     Document Type: Article

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