A method for vector displacement estimation with ultrasound imaging and its application for thyroid nodular disease

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 259-274

  Basarab, Adrian ^a   Liebgott, Hervé ^a   Morestin, Fabrice ^b   Lyshchik, Andrej ^c,d   Higashi, Tatsuya ^d   Asato, Ryo ^d   Delachartre, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deformable block matching; Elasticity imaging of thyroid; Multi scale approach; Parametric displacement modeling; Sub pixel tissue motion estimation; Ultrasound image

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS; ESTIMATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; PIXELS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

BILINEAR MODEL; DEFORMABLE BLOCK MATCHING; ELASTICITY IMAGING OF THYROID; PARAMETRIC DISPLACEMENT MODELING; SUB-PIXEL TISSUE MOTION ESTIMATION; THYROID NODULAR DISEASE; ULTRASOUND ELASTOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 43749101875     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2007.10.007     Document Type: Article

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