Locally adaptive Nakagami-based ultrasound similarity measures

Ultrasonics

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 547-554

  Wachinger, Christian ^a,b   Klein, Tassilo ^a   Navab, Nassir ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Local adaptation; Nakagami; Registration; Similarity measure; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BIVARIATE; COHERENT STRUCTURE; CONSTANT PARAMETERS; IMAGE DOMAIN; IMAGE NOISE; INTENSITY-BASED REGISTRATION; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND; NAKAGAMI; NAKAGAMI DISTRIBUTION; NAKAGAMI PARAMETER; NOISE DISTRIBUTION; RADIO FREQUENCIES; REGISTRATION; SIMILARITY MEASURE; SIMILARITY METRICS; SPATIAL ADAPTATION; SPECKLE NOISE; ULTRASOUND DATA; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ULTRASONICS;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NECK; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCER;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NECK; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84856511687     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2011.11.009     Document Type: Article

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