Numerical methods and workstation for the quantitative analysis of real-time myocardial contrast echocardiography

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1204-1210

  Sun, Feng Rong ^a   Zhang, Ming Qiang ^b   Jia, Xiao Bo ^a   Wang, Xiao Jing ^c   Yao, Gui Hua ^d   Zhang, Yun ^d  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b QUFU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Toshiba China Co Ltd   (China)

^d SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE); nonlinear regression analysis; optical flow; orthogonal array optimization (OAO); workstation

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ANALYSIS; CLINICAL STUDY; COARSE-TO-FINE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; MEAN VELOCITIES; MYOCARDIAL AREAS; MYOCARDIAL BLOOD FLOW; MYOCARDIAL BLOOD VOLUME; MYOCARDIAL CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MYOCARDIAL MICROCIRCULATION; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION; NON-LINEAR MODEL; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL STABILITIES; OPTICAL FLOW TECHNIQUES; ORTHOGONAL ARRAY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGION OF INTEREST; UNKNOWN PARAMETERS; WORKSTATION;

BLOOD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MICROCIRCULATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL FLOWS; OPTIMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

NONLINEAR ANALYSIS;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DOG; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DOGS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICROBUBBLES; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 77956374931     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2010.2040395     Document Type: Article

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