An adaptive squared-distance-weighted interpolation for volume reconstruction in 3D freehand ultrasound

Ultrasonics

Volumn 44, Issue SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Huang, Qing Hua ^a   Zheng, Yong Ping ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

3D ultrasound; Adaptive SDW interpolation; Speckle suppression; Volume reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; INTERPOLATION; SPECKLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ULTRASONICS;

3D ULTRASOUND IMAGING; SPECKLE SUPPRESSION; SQUARED DISTANCE WEIGHTED (SDW) INTERPOLATION; VOLUME RECONSTRUCTION;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33845689073     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2006.06.040     Document Type: Article

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