Unsupervised dealiasing and denoising of color-Doppler data

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 577-588

  Muth, Stéphan ^a   Dort, Sarah ^a   Sebag, Igal A ^b   Blais, Marie Josée ^b   Garcia, Damien ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Color Doppler echocardiography; Dealiasing; Region merging segmentation; Robust spline smoothing; Unsupervised image processing

Indexed keywords

COLOR DOPPLER; DEALIASING; REGION-MERGING; ROBUST SPLINE SMOOTHING; UNSUPERVISED IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD; COLOR; DOPPLER EFFECT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

MERGING;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NOISE REDUCTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79958765253     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2011.03.003     Document Type: Article

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