Wavelet restoration of medical pulse-echo ultrasound images in an em framework

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 550-567

  Ng, James ^b   Prager, Richard ^b   Kingsbury, Nick ^a,b   Treece, Graham ^b   Gee, Andrew ^b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ECHOGENICITY MAP; TISSUE REFLECTIVITY; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; WAVELET RESTORATION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED;

EID: 33947615165     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.278     Document Type: Article

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