Volume reconstruction of freehand three-dimensional ultrasound using median filters

Ultrasonics

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 182-192

  Huang, Qing Hua ^a   Zheng, Yong Ping ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

3D ultrasound imaging; Freehand 3D ultrasound; Gaussian weighted median; Median filter; Volume reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATA REDUCTION; DATA VISUALIZATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERPOLATION; KETONES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; REPAIR; RESTORATION; SET THEORY; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS; VOLUME MEASUREMENT; WAVE FILTERS;

3D (THREE DIMENSIONAL) IMAGING; 3D DATA; 3D ULTRASOUND (3D US); CLINICAL APPLICATIONS; DATA ANALYSIS; ELSEVIER (CO); FREEHAND THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND; GAUSSIAN; IMAGE SETS; INTERPOLATION ERRORS; INTERPOLATION METHODS; LEAVE-ONE-OUT (LOO); MEDIAN FILTERING; NEIGHBOURHOOD; TWO TYPES; US IMAGING; VOLUME RECONSTRUCTION; VOXEL INTENSITIES; WEIGHTED MEDIAN;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 45549085729     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2007.11.005     Document Type: Article

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