Ultrasound backscatter characterization by using Markov random field model

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Bouhlel, N ^a,b   Sevestre Ghalila, S ^a   Jaidane, M ^b   Graffigne, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS EL MANAR   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; ULTRASONICS;

BACKSCATTERED ECHO; CONDITIONAL LEAST SQUARES (CLS); K-MARKOV RANDOM FIELD; SPATIAL INTERACTION;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 33947643590     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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