Effect of adaptive threshold filtering on ultrasonic Nakagami parameter to detect variation in scatterer concentration

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 229-242

  Tsui, Po Hsiang ^a   Wan, Yung Liang ^a,b   Huang, Chih Chung ^c   Wang, Ming Chen ^d  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Empirical mode decomposition; Nakagami parameter; Threshold filter

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; HISTOLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TISSUE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING;

ADAPTIVE THRESHOLD FILTERING; ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDS; BACKSCATTERED SIGNAL; EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION; NAKAGAMI DISTRIBUTION; NAKAGAMI PARAMETER; SCATTERER CONCENTRATIONS; THRESHOLD FILTER;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 78649872674     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016173461003200403     Document Type: Article

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