Contrast improvement by combining pulse inversion with EMD and EEMD

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 287-290

  Liao, Ai Ho ^a   Shen, Che Chou ^b   Li, Pai Chi ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; WHITE NOISE;

CONTRAST IMPROVEMENTS; CONTRAST-TO-TISSUE RATIO; EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION; ENSEMBLE EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITIONS (EEMD); HILBERT HUANG TRANSFORMS; NONLINEAR IMAGING; PULSE-INVERSION TECHNIQUE; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST IMAGING;

TISSUE;

EID: 77952840061     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441948     Document Type: Conference Paper

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