A quality-guided displacement tracking algorithm for ultrasonic elasticity imaging

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 286-296

  Chen, Lujie ^a   Treece, Graham M ^a   Lindop, Joel E ^a   Gee, Andrew H ^a   Prager, Richard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elastography; Strain imaging; Tracking; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX STRUCTURES; COMPUTATIONAL EXPENSE; DATA QUALITIES; DECORRELATION; DISPLACEMENT DISTRIBUTIONS; DISPLACEMENT ESTIMATIONS; ECHO SIGNALS; ELASTICITY IMAGING; ELASTOGRAPHY; EXHAUSTIVE SEARCHES; EXISTING METHODS; QUASI-STATIC STRAINS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; SEARCH STRATEGIES; STRAIN IMAGING; TARGET DISPLACEMENTS; TISSUE ELASTICITIES; TRACKING; TRACKING ALGORITHMS; ULTRASOUND;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ELASTICITY; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ELASTOGRAPHY; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 62549154500     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2008.10.007     Document Type: Article

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