Artifact removal and texture-based rendering for visualization of 3D fetal ultrasound images

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 575-588

  Wang, Shyh Roei ^a   Sun, Yung Nien ^a   Chang, Fong Ming ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Diffusion filter; Speckle noise; Texture; Ultrasonography; Visualization

Indexed keywords

FETAL MONITORING; IMAGE QUALITY; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPECKLE; TEXTURES; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

DIFFUSION FILTER; OBJECT VISUALIZATION; TEXTURE-BASED RENDERING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL FILTERING; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NOISE REDUCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ARTIFACTS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 44349171307     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-007-0286-7     Document Type: Article

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