Bayesian regularization applied to ultrasound strain imaging

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1612-1620

  McCormick, Matthew ^a   Rubert, Nicholas ^a   Varghese, Tomy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes procedures; biomedical acoustic imaging; biomedical imaging; displacement measurement; image motion analysis; strain measurement

Indexed keywords

BAYES PROCEDURE; BIOMEDICAL ACOUSTIC IMAGING; BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT; IMAGE MOTION ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGE MATCHING; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

STRAIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BREAST CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NONHUMAN; SWINE; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CAROTID ARTERIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SWINE;

EID: 79956345107     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2106500     Document Type: Article

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