Automated tracking of muscle fascicle orientation in B-mode ultrasound images

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 42, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 2068-2073

  Rana, Manku ^a   Hamarneh, Ghassan ^a   Wakeling, James M ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Functional imaging; Muscle fascicle tracking; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED TRACKING; AUTOMATICALLY TRACKING; B-MODE ULTRASOUND IMAGES; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; MULTISCALES; MUSCLE FASCICLE TRACKING; MUSCLE FASCICLES; RADON TRANSFORM; SEGMENTATION; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; SYNTHETIC IMAGES; TUBE-LIKE; VESSEL ENHANCEMENT;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; MUSCLE; RADON; SHRINKAGE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; B SCAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 69449084369     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2009.06.003     Document Type: Article

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