Ultrasound image quality assessment: A framework for evaluation of clinical image quality

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7629, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hemmsen, Martin Christian ^a,b   Petersen, Mads Møller ^c   Nikolov, Svetoslav Ivanov ^b   Nielsen, Michael Backmann ^c   Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b BK Medical   (Denmark)

^c University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Methodology for clinical quality assessment; Statistical analysis; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMATION; CAMERA LINKS; CLINICAL IMAGES; CLINICAL USE; DATA SEQUENCES; DATA STORAGE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FREE ACCESS; INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNIONS; OBJECTIVE CRITERIA; OPERATING CONDITION; PATIENT INFORMATION; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; REGION OF INTEREST; REPRODUCIBILITIES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL EVALUATION; SUBJECTIVE QUALITY ASSESSMENTS; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

DATA PROCESSING; FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SCANNING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 77956817939     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.840664     Document Type: Conference Paper

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