Interactive volume rendering of real-time three-dimensional ultrasound images

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 313-318

  Kuo, Johnny ^a   Bredthauer, Gregory R ^b   Castellucci, John B ^c   Von Ramm, Olaf T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Semiconductor Technology Associates Inc   (United States)

^c Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC IMAGING; RENDERING IMPLEMENTATION; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; VIDEO FRAMES;

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

VOLUME RENDERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33847733197     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.245     Document Type: Article

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