Prostate mechanical imaging: 3-D image composition and feature calculations

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1329-1340

  Egorov, Vladimir ^b   Ayrapetyan, Suren ^b   Sarvazyan, Armen P ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b ARTANN Laboratories Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Elastography; Mechanical imaging; Prostate; Prostate cancer screening; Tissue elasticity

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SENSOR ARRAYS; TISSUE; TRACKING (POSITION); TUMORS;

ELASTOGRAPHY; MECHANICAL IMAGING; PROSTATE CANCER SCREENING; PROSTATE MECHANICAL IMAGER (PMI); PROSTATE PHANTOMS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; PROSTATE; PROSTATE TUMOR; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33947274169     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.880667     Document Type: Article

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