Carotid artery motion estimation from sequences of B-mode ultrasound images: Effect of dynamic range and persistence

IST 2006 - Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Workshop on Imagining Systems and Techniques

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 131-136

  Stoitsis, John ^a   Golemati, Spyretta ^a   Perakis, Dimitris ^a   Alexandriai, Anastasia ^b   Davos, Constantinos ^b   Nikita, Konstantina S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY THEORY; SCANNING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; BLOCK MATCHING; IMAGE SEQUENCES; MOTION ANALYSIS;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EID: 33845574208     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IST.2006.1650790     Document Type: Conference Paper

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