Robust estimation of time-of-flight shear wave speed using a radon sum transformation

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2662-2670

  Rouze, Ned ^a   Wang, Michael ^a   Palmeri, Mark ^a   Nightingale, Kathryn ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GROSS OUTLIERS; HUMAN LIVER; IMPULSIVE EXCITATIONS; IN-VIVO; PHANTOM DATA; PROJECTION DATA; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; RADON TRANSFORMATIONS; RANDOM SAMPLE CONSENSUS; RANSAC ALGORITHM; REAL-TIME FEEDBACK; ROBUST ESTIMATION; SHEAR WAVE SPEED; SOLUTION SPACE; SPATIAL INHOMOGENEITIES; TIME OF FLIGHT; TIME-OF-FLIGHT METHOD; WAVE MOTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; LIVER; RADON; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; TRAJECTORIES; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

METADATA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; ELASTIC MODULUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 78650329187     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1740     Document Type: Article

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