Fast GPU based adaptive filtering of 4D echocardiography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1165-1172

  Broxvall, Mathias ^a,b   Emilsson, Kent ^a,b   Thunberg, Per ^a,b  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; high performance computing; image denoising; image enhancement; parallel computing

Indexed keywords

2D IMAGING; ADAPTIVE IMAGE PROCESSING; ADAPTIVE IMAGES; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PRACTICES; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; DATA SET SIZE; DATA SETS; FILTERING METHOD; GENERAL METHODOLOGIES; GENERAL PURPOSE; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; IMAGE FILTERING; IMAGE IMPROVEMENT; MEASURING DEVICE; MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA; MULTIPLE KERNELS; PROCESSING ELEMENTS; SPEED INCREASE; TIME-RESOLVED; ULTRASOUND PROBES;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE DENOISING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84861840831     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2011.2179308     Document Type: Article

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