Spatiotemporal filtering of sequences of ultrasound images to estimate a dense field of velocities

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2989-2997

  Marion, Adrien ^a   Vray, Didier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Bank of oriented filters; Spatiotemporal filtering; Ultrasonic imaging; Velocity estimation

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SYSTEMS; LAMINAR FLOW; MAPS; PIXELS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

BANK OF ORIENTED FILTERS; BLOOD VELOCITY ESTIMATION; CLINICAL APPLICATION; PARABOLIC PROFILES; SPATIO TEMPORAL FILTERING; SPATIOTEMPORAL VOLUME; VELOCITY ESTIMATION; VELOCITY VECTOR ESTIMATION;

VELOCITY;

EID: 67649574529     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2009.04.020     Document Type: Article

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