Improving the visualization of 3D ultrasound data with 3D filtering

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5744, Issue I, 2005, Pages 455-461

  Shamdasani, Vijay ^a   Bae, Unmin ^a   Managuli, Ravi ^a,b   Kim, Yongmin ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b Hitachi Medical Systems America   (United States)

Author keywords

3D filter; 3D ultrasound; Visualization; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUALIZATION;

3D FILTER; 3D ULTRASOUND; SPECKLE NOISE; VOLUME RENDERING;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 23244462962     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.596641     Document Type: Conference Paper

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