A critical review and uniformized representation of statistical distributions modeling the ultrasound echo envelope

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1037-1051

  Destrempes, François ^a   Cloutier, Guy ^a,b  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

B mode; Echo envelope; Generalized K distribution; Homodyned K distribution; Nakagami distribution; Nakagami gamma distribution; Nakagami generalized inverse Gaussian distribution; Rician inverse Gaussian distribution

Indexed keywords

GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; GENERALIZED INVERSE; INVERSE GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; K-DISTRIBUTION; NAKAGAMI; NAKAGAMI DISTRIBUTION;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONICS;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

ECHOGRAPHY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 77953909941     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2010.04.001     Document Type: Review

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