Modeling log-compressed ultrasound images for radio frequency signal recovery

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 426-429

  Seabra, José ^a   Sanches, João ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA HANDLING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LUMINANCE; RADIO WAVES; RECOVERY; SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION; ULTRASONIC EQUIPMENT;

KULLBACK LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; NONLINEAR COMPRESSION; RADIOFREQUENCY SIGNALS; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL DATA PROCESSING; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MEASURES; SYNTHETIC AND REAL DATA;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; DATA COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 61849164435     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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