A comparative study of echo estimation techniques for ultrasonic NDE applications

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 436-439

  Lu, Y ^a   Demirli, R ^a   Saniie, J ^a  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Chirplet; Parameter estimation; Signal decomposition

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; CONTROL THEORY; CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; ECHO SUPPRESSION; ESTIMATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MILITARY DATA PROCESSING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ULTRASONICS; ALGORITHMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; METAL ANALYSIS;

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; BACKSCATTERED SIGNALS; CHIRPLET TRANSFORMS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CRAMER RAO LOWER BOUND (CRLB); ECHO ESTIMATION; INTERNATIONAL (CO); LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; LINEAR EXPANSIONS; MATCHING PURSUIT (MP); MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; MINIMUM VARIANCE (MV); NARROW BANDS; NOISE LEVELS; SIGNAL DECOMPOSITION; ULTRASONIC NDE; ULTRASONIC SIGNALS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; BACKSCATTERED SIGNAL; CHIRPLET TRANSFORMS; CHIRPLETS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CRAMER RAO LOWER BOUND; ECHO ESTIMATION; EFFECTIVE TOOL; LINEAR EXPANSIONS; MATCHING PURSUIT; MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; MINIMUM VARIANCE; NARROW BANDS; NOISE LEVELS; SIGNAL DECOMPOSITION; ULTRASONIC NDE; ULTRASONIC SIGNALS;

EID: 47249089650     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2006.120     Document Type: Conference Paper

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