Comparative evaluation of despeckle filtering in ultrasound imaging of the carotid artery

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1653-1669

  Loizou, Christos P ^b,g   Pattichis, Constantinos S ^a,c,d   Christodoulou, Christodoulos I ^c,d   Istepanian, Robert S H ^a,f,h   Pantziaris, Marios ^d,i   Nicolaides, Andrew ^c,d,e,j  

^a IEEE

^b Intercollege ^*  (Cyprus)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^d CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g INTERCOLLEGE   (Cyprus)

^h Institute of Electrical Engineers

ⁱ Neurological Department

^j UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TEXTURE ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PERFORMANCE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

FILTRATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 28444460771     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1561621     Document Type: Article

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