An autocorrelation-based method for improvement of sub-pixel displacement estimation in ultrasound strain imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 838-843

  Kim, Seungsoo ^a   Aglyamov, Salavat R ^a   Park, Suhyun ^b   O'Donnell, Matthew ^c   Emelianov, Stanislav Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION METHODS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; ELASTICITY IMAGING; IMAGING QUALITY; REAL-TIME ELASTICITY IMAGING SYSTEM; STRAIN IMAGING; SUB-PIXEL DISPLACEMENTS; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM;

ELASTICITY; ESTIMATION; PIXELS; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

AUTOCORRELATION;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 79955457690     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2011.1876     Document Type: Article

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