Longitudinal Enhancement of the Hyperechoic Regions in Ultrasonography of Muscles Using a Gabor Filter Bank Approach: A Preparation for Semi-Automatic Muscle Fiber Orientation Estimation

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 665-673

  Zhou, Yongjin ^a   Zheng, Yong Ping ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Gabor filtering; Image enhancement; Image segmentation; Muscle; Soft tissue; Sonogram; Sonomyography; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; FILTER BANKS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MUSCLE; SONOCHEMISTRY; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

AUTOMATIC ESTIMATION; GABOR FILTERING; MULTIPLICATIVE SPECKLE NOISE; MUSCLE FIBER ORIENTATIONS; ORIENTATION FIELD ESTIMATIONS; SOFT TISSUE; SONOGRAM; SONOMYOGRAPHY;

GABOR FILTERS;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; GABOR FILTER BANK TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MYOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

EID: 79952738702     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2010.12.011     Document Type: Article

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