Preliminary testing of sensitivity to input data quality in an elastographic reconstruction method

2006 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro - Proceedings

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 948-951

  Ou, Jao J ^a   Barnes, Stephanie L ^a   Miga, Michael I ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DERMOSCOPIC APPLICATIONS; ELASTOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE NOISE; PHANTOM MEMBRANES;

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DATA REDUCTION; ELASTICITY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTIMIZATION; TISSUE;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 33750965452     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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