Blind deconvolution of medical ultrasound images: A parametric inverse filtering approach

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3005-3019

  Michailovich, Oleg ^a,b   Tannenbaum, Allen ^a,c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bayesian estimation; Bayesian methods; Blind deconvolution; Deconvolution; Inverse filtering; Optical transfer function; PSI subspaces; Ultrasonic imaging; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

DECONVOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; OPTIMIZATION; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

BAYESIAN ESTIMATION; BAYESIAN METHODS; BLIND DECONVOLUTION; INVERSE FILTERING; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 36749040275     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2007.910179     Document Type: Article

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