Reconstruction of 3D ultrasound images based on Cyclic Regularized Savitzky-Golay filters

Ultrasonics

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 136-147

  Toonkum, Pollakrit ^a   Suwanwela, Nijasri C ^a   Chinrungrueng, Chedsada ^a  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

3D ultrasound images; Reconstruction; Regularization; Savitzky Golay filters; Speckle reduction

Indexed keywords

3-D ULTRASOUND; RECONSTRUCTION; REGULARIZATION; SAVITZKY-GOLAY FILTER; SPECKLE REDUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; COST FUNCTIONS; COST REDUCTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERPOLATION; SCANNING; SPECKLE; ULTRASONICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; CAROTID ARTERIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 78649316133     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2010.07.003     Document Type: Article

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