Backscatter-contour-attenuation joint estimation model for attenuation compensation in ultrasound imagery

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2725-2736

  Yu, Yongjian ^a   Wang, Jue ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation compensation; Backscatter; Optimization; Shadowing artifact; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING MINIMIZATION; ATTENUATION COMPENSATION; BACKSCATTER; BLOCK SIZES; CONTOUR EVOLUTION; COST FUNCTIONALS; ECHO SIGNALS; JOINT ESTIMATION; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PULSE ECHOES; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL IMAGES; REGION-BASED; SHADOWING ARTIFACT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; ULTRASOUND B-SCAN; ULTRASOUND IMAGERY; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; BACKSCATTERING; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ESTIMATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ULTRASONICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 77956918157     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2010.2050636     Document Type: Article

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