Study of ultrasonic echo envelope based on Nakagami-inverse Gaussian distribution

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 371-376

  Karmeshu, ^a,c   Agrawal, Rajeev ^a,b  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Kumaon Engineering College Dwarahat   (India)

^c A 150 ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Backscattered echo; Composite distribution; Inverse Gaussian; KL measure; Lognormal; Nakagami; Nakagami inverse Gaussian; Probability density functions; Tissue characterization; Ultrasonic imaging

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; ERROR ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BACKSCATTERED ECHO; COMPOSITE DISTRIBUTION; INVERSE GAUSSIAN; KL MEASURE; LOGNORMAL; NAKAGAMI; NAKAGAMI-INVERSE GAUSSIAN; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33644828450     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2005.11.012     Document Type: Article

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