Automatic tracking of muscle fascicles in ultrasound images using localized radon transform

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2094-2101

  Zhao, Heng ^a,b   Zhang, Li Qun ^a  

^a REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Fascicle tracking; linear detection; Radon transform (RT); ultrasound

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TRACKING; CLINICAL DATA; CLINICAL IMAGES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXTRACTION METHOD; FASCICLE TRACKING; FIELD II; HUMAN SUBJECTS; LINEAR DETECTION; LINEAR FEATURE EXTRACTION; MUSCLE FASCICLES; MUSCLE PROPERTIES; PATHOLOGIC CONDITIONS; RADON TRANSFORM; RADON TRANSFORM (RT); SIMULATED IMAGES; SPECKLE NOISE; TRACKING METHOD; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; MUSCLE; POSITION MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

RADON;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; EYE TRACKING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MUSCLE FASCICLE; NOISE; SIMULATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 79959569289     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2144593     Document Type: Article

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