Noise effect on the performance of Nakagami image in ultrasound tissue characterization

Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 197-202

  Tsui, Po Hsiang ^a   Yeh, Chih Kuang ^b   Chang, Chien Cheng ^a,c  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Nakagami distribution; Noise; Parametric image

Indexed keywords

B-MODE IMAGES; CONTRAST-TO-NOISE RATIOS; HYPERECHOIC REGIONS; NAKAGAMI; NAKAGAMI DISTRIBUTION; NOISE; NOISE EFFECTS; PARAMETRIC IMAGE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCATTERER CONCENTRATIONS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATIONS; TISSUE STRUCTURES; TISSUE-MIMICKING PHANTOMS; ULTRASONIC PARAMETRIC IMAGING; ULTRASOUND TISSUE CHARACTERIZATIONS;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 60849130164     PISSN: 16090985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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