Velocity estimation in ultrasound images: A block matching approach

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2732, Issue , 2003, Pages 586-598

  Boukerroui, Djamal ^a,b   Alison Noble, J ^b   Brady, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIÈGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MOTION COMPENSATION; OPTICAL FLOWS; ULTRASONICS;

ALGORITHM PARAMETERS; BLOCK MATCHING METHODS; CROSS CORRELATIONS; GLOBAL OPTIMISATION; IMAGE FORMATION MODELS; SIMILARITY MEASURE; SUM OF SQUARE DIFFERENCES; VELOCITY ESTIMATION;

IMAGE MATCHING;

EID: 33750945916     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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