Statistical modeling of the radio-frequency signal for partially- and fully-developed speckle based on a generalized gaussian model with application to echocardiography

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2189-2194

  Bernard, Olivier ^b   Touil, Basma ^b   D'hooge, Jan ^a,c   Friboulet, Denis ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c Dept Of Cardiology   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPECKLE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

MYOCARDIUM; RADIO FREQUENCY SIGNALS; STATISTICAL MODELING;

SIGNAL ANALYSIS;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIO WAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 37049021515     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.515     Document Type: Article

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