Statistical analysis of image quality in multi-angle compound imaging

Proceedings - IEEE John Vincent Atanasoff 2006 International Symposium on Modern Computing, JVA 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 197-201

  Behar, Vera ^a   Nikolov, Milen ^a  

^a BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BEAM ANGLES; MULTI ANGLE COMPOUND IMAGING; SPECKLE NOISES;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 34547650587     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/JVA.2006.46     Document Type: Conference Paper

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