Ultrasound elastography: A dynamic programming approach

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1373-1377

  Rivaz, Hassan ^a   Boctor, Emad ^a   Foroughi, Pezhman ^a   Zellars, Richard ^b   Fichtinger, Gabor ^c   Hager, Gregory ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dynamic programming; Freehand ultrasound (US); Real time strain imaging; Regularization; Ultrasound elastography

Indexed keywords

DATA COMPRESSION; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; STANDARDS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

DECORRELATION NOISE; DISPLACEMENT CONTINUITY; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING (DP); ELASTOGRAPHY; FREEHAND ULTRASOUND (US); HIGH-QUALITY; REAL TIME; REAL TIME STRAIN IMAGING; REGULARIZATION; SIGNAL DECORRELATION; STANDARD CORRELATION; STRAIN IMAGING; TISSUE DEFORMATIONS; ULTRASOUND ELASTOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELASTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 52649109759     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.917243     Document Type: Article

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