FPGA-based real-time anisotropic diffusion filtering of 3D ultrasound images

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5671, Issue , 2005, Pages 123-131

  Castro Pareja, Carlos R ^a   Dandekar, Omkar ^b   Shekhar, Raj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; Gaussian filtering; Real time systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIFFUSION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; GAUSSIAN FILTERING; GAUSSIAN SMOOTHING; SURGICAL NAVIGATION;

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS;

EID: 21944449121     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.586198     Document Type: Conference Paper

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