Improving IVUS palpography by incorporation of motion compensation based on block matching and optical flow

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2392-2404

  Danilouchkine, Mikhail G ^a   Mastik, Frits ^a   Van Der Steen, Antonius F W ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHETERS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL FLOWS; SPACE PROBES; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

BLOCK MATCHING; CIRCUMFERENTIAL DISPLACEMENTS; COMPENSATION METHODS; COMPRESSIONAL LOADS; CORONARY ARTERIES; DIAGNOSTIC VALUES; DISPLACEMENT FIELDS; IN-VIVO; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUNDS; LOCAL STRAINS; MOTION ARTIFACTS; MOTION CORRECTIONS; NONUNIFORM DEFORMATIONS; NOVEL METHODS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RF SIGNALS; SCALE SPACES; SIGNAL CORRELATIONS; SPECKLE DECORRELATION; STRAIN COMPUTATIONS; STRAIN IMAGING; TISSUE DISPLACEMENTS; TISSUE MOTIONS; VALIDATION STUDIES; VESSEL WALLS;

MOTION COMPENSATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 57049156594     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.947     Document Type: Article

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