Wavelet denoising of displacement estimates in elastography

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 477-491

  Techavipoo, Udomchai ^a,b   Varghese, Tomy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Denoising; Discrete wavelet transform; Elasticity; Elastogram; Elastography; Imaging; Modulus; Radiofrequency ablation; Strain; Ultrasound; Wavelet shrinkage

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; CORRELATION METHODS; ESTIMATION; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

ELASTOGRAPHY; RADIOFREQUENCY (RF) ABLATION; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS; WAVELET DENOISING;

ULTRASONICS;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELASTOGRAPHY; FILTRATION; NOISE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BIOMECHANICS; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STRESS, MECHANICAL; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 2342514216     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2003.11.010     Document Type: Article

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