Towards pointwise motion tracking in echocardiographic image sequences - Comparing the reliability of different features for speckle tracking

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 495-508

  Yu, Weichuan ^a   Yan, Ping ^b   Sinusas, Albert J ^a,c   Thiele, Karl ^d   Duncan, James S ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Deformation analysis; Echocardiographic image sequence; Feature reliability; Feature variation; Motion feature decorrelation; Myocardial ischemia; Pointwise motion tracking

Indexed keywords

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC IMAGE SEQUENCE; FEATURE RELIABILITY; FEATURE VARIATION; MOTION-FEATURE DECORRELATION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; POINTWISE MOTION TRACKING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVOLUTION; DEFORMATION; ESTIMATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; TRACKING (POSITION); ULTRASONIC EQUIPMENT;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY; RELIABILITY; SIMULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOVEMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 33746682435     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2005.12.003     Document Type: Article

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