Optimally discriminant moments for speckle detection in real B-scan images

Ultrasonics

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 169-181

  Marti R ^a   Marti J ^a   Freixenet, J ^a   Zwiggelaar, R ^b   Vilanova, J C ^c   Barcelo J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Girona Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center   (Spain)

Author keywords

Discriminant analysis; Fractional low order moments; Medical imaging; Speckle detection; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADDITION REACTIONS; DETECTORS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

AUTOMATIC METHODS; DISCRIMINANT FUNCTIONS; ELSEVIER (CO); IN VIVO STUDIES; IN-VIVO; LOW ORDER; LOW ORDER MOMENTS; MANUAL INTERVENTION; OPTIMAL VALUES; OPTIMALITY CRITERIA; SCAN DATA; SCAN IMAGES; SENSOR PARAMETERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO (SNR); SPECKLE CORRELATIONS; SPECKLE DETECTION; SPECKLE NOISES; SPECKLE STATISTICS; STATISTICAL MODELLING; STATISTICAL MOMENTS; US IMAGING; VALUABLE INFORMATIONS;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 45549105749     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2007.11.010     Document Type: Article

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