Speckle-constrained filtering of ultrasound images

Proceedings - 2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2005

Volumn II, Issue , 2005, Pages 547-552

  Krissian, Karl ^a   Kikinis, Ron ^a   Westin, Carl Fredrik ^a   Vosburgh, Kirby ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DIAGNOSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHYSICAL THERAPY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION TECHNIQUES; NOISE MODELS; SPECKLE-CONSTRAINED FILTERING; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 24644503229     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2005.331     Document Type: Conference Paper

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