An efficient temperature estimation using optical-flow in ultrasound B-Mode digital images

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 86-89

  Mehrabani, Bahram M ^a   Tavakoli, Vahid ^b   Abolhassani, Mohammad D ^c   Alirezaie, Javad ^d   Ahmadian, Alireza ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^c Research Centre For Science and Technology   (Iran)

^d RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPECKLE; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL EXPANSION; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ACCURACY OF MEASUREMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; CROSS-CORRELATION ALGORITHM; LOCAL TEMPERATURE; SPECKLE PATTERNS; TEMPERATURE ESTIMATION; THERMAL THERAPIES; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM;

OPTICAL FLOWS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THERMOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THERMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 61849111108     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649097     Document Type: Conference Paper

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