Modality independent elastography (MIE): A new approach to elasticity imaging

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1117-1128

  Washington, Chad W ^a   Miga, Michael I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Elasticity; Elastography; Image registration; Image similarity; Inverse problem; Mutual information; Soft tissue; Stiffness; Young's modulus

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; ELASTOGRAPHY; IMAGE REGISTRATION; IMAGE SIMILARITY; MUTUAL INFORMATION; SOFT TISSUE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; DISEASES; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; HEALTH; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STIFFNESS; TISSUE; TUMORS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 4444367047     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.830532     Document Type: Article

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