Probabilistic-driven oriented speckle reducing anisotropic diffusion with application to cardiac ultrasonic images

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6361 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 518-525

  Vegas Sanchez Ferrero, G ^a   Aja Fernandez, S ^a   Martin Fernandez, M ^a   Frangi, A F ^b   Palencia, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; cardiac ultrasonic images; diffusion tensor; probability models; structure tensor

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; CARDIAC ULTRASONIC IMAGES; DIFFUSION TENSOR; PROBABILITY MODELS; STRUCTURE TENSORS;

DIFFUSION; HEART; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

TENSORS;

EID: 78349284398     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15705-9_63     Document Type: Conference Paper

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