Embolic Doppler ultrasound signal detection using discrete wavelet transform

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 182-190

  Aydin, Nizamettin ^a   Marvasti, Farokh ^b   Markus, Hugh S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebral emboli; Detection; Discrete wavelet transform (DWT); Fuzzy logic; Ultrasound; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CELLS; FUZZY SETS; HEMODYNAMICS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ASYMPTOTIC CIRCULATING EMBOLI; CEREBRAL EMBOLI; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM; DOPPLER SPECKLE; EMBOLIC DOPPLER ULTRASOUND SIGNAL DETECTION; EMBOLIC SIGNALS;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 3042642039     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2004.828882     Document Type: Article

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