Circular ultrasound compounding by designed matrix weighting

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 732-741

  Bashford, Gregory R ^a,b   Morse, Jonathan L ^b,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; Cancer screening; Medical imaging; Spatial compounding; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BREAST IMAGING; CANCER SCREENING; CONTRAST-TO-SPECKLE RATIO; SPATIAL COMPOUNDING;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; TUMORS; ULTRASONICS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 33746657314     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.873610     Document Type: Article

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