Combinatorial and probabilistic fusion of noisy correlation measurements for untracked freehand 3-D ultrasound

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 984-994

  Laporte, Catherine ^b   Arbel, Tal ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Image reconstruction; Maximum entropy methods; Maximum likelihood estimation; Traveling salesman problems

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; CORRELATION METHODS; CURVES (ROAD); ESTIMATION; ISOMERS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MEASUREMENTS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RECOVERY; SEPARATION; SPECKLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRACKING (POSITION); TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

(P ,P ,T) MEASUREMENTS; 3D ULTRASOUND (3D US); BASELINE METHODS; CALIBRATION DATA; CORRELATION MEASUREMENTS; DATA SETS; DETERMINISTIC MODELING; IMAGE DATA; IN PLANE MOTION; LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NEW METHODS; NON-MONOTONIC; OUT OF PLANE; POSITION TRACKING; PROBABILISTIC MODEL (PM); REGISTRATION TECHNIQUES; RELATIVE POSITIONING; SKEWED DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECKLE DECORRELATION; TRAVELING SALESMAN; US IMAGING;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CALIBRATION; ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; REFERENCE VALUE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND; UNCERTAINTY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; CALIBRATION; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTION; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 46349096929     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.923704     Document Type: Article

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