Speckle simulation based on B-mode echographic image acquisition model

Proceedings - Fourth Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, CRV 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 379-386

  Perreault, Charles ^a   Auclair Fortier, Marie Flavie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIXELS;

SPECKLE FORMATION MODEL; SYNTHETIC IMAGES; ULTRASONOGRAMS;

IMAGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 34548741366     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CRV.2007.61     Document Type: Conference Paper

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