Single-ensemble-based eigen-processing methods for color flow imaging-Part I. the Hankel-SVD filter

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 559-572

  Yu, Alfred C H ^a   Cobbold, Richard S C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VELOCITIES; CBR; CLUTTER SUPPRESSIONS; COLOR FLOW IMAGES; COLOR FLOW IMAGING; COLOR FLOWS; COMPONENT ANALYSIS; EIGEN-BASED FILTERS; FLOW DETECTIONS; FLOW PARAMETERS; HUMAN CAROTID ARTERIES; IN-VIVO; POST FILTERS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; PROCESSING METHODS; PULSE REPETITION PERIODS; SIGNAL RATIOS; SIMULATION ANALYSIS; SPACE DIMENSIONS; STOP BANDS; TIME SIGNALS; TISSUE MOTIONS; TRANSITION REGIONS; TRANSMIT FREQUENCIES; VESSEL IMAGING;

ADAPTIVE FILTERS; BITS; BLOOD; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); COLOR; ELECTRIC FILTERS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 44849100646     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2008.682     Document Type: Article

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