Optimizing multicompression approaches to elasticity imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 90-98

  Du, Huini ^a,b   Liu, Jie ^a,b,c   Pellot Barakat, Claire ^a,b,d,e   Insana, Michael F ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Department of Biomedical Engineering ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STRAIN;

ECHO NOISE; STRAIN IMAGE;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMPRESSION; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 33144486097     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.1588394     Document Type: Article

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