Performance evaluation of eigendecomposition-based adaptive clutter filter for color flow imaging

Ultrasonics

Volumn 44, Issue SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Song, Fuxian ^a   Zhang, Dong ^a   Gong, Xiufen ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptive clutter filtering; Clutter filter; Ultrasound color flow imaging

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; ULTRASONICS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ADAPTIVE CLUTTER FILTERING; CLUTTER FILTERS; CLUTTER SIGNALS; ULTRASOUND COLOR FLOW IMAGING;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTERIES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 33845697143     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2006.06.039     Document Type: Article

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