Improved parameter estimates based on the homodyned K distribution

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2471-2481

  Hruska, David P ^a   Oelze, Michael L ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR COMPOUNDING; BACK-SCATTERED; BACKSCATTER SIGNALS; BIAS AND VARIANCE; DIAGNOSTIC CAPABILITIES; ESTIMATING PARAMETERS; ESTIMATION ALGORITHM; K DISTRIBUTION; MAMMARY TUMORS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION ALGORITHM; QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES; SIMULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM; ULTRASONIC TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; ULTRASOUND BACKSCATTER;

ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ULTRASONICS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 73949154082     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2009.1334     Document Type: Article

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