Ultrasound confidence maps using random walks

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1101-1112

  Karamalis, Athanasios ^a   Wein, Wolfgang ^a   Klein, Tassilo ^a   Navab, Nassir ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confidence; Random walks; Transmission; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

3D FREEHAND; CLINICAL PRACTICES; CONFIDENCE; CONFIDENCE ESTIMATION; EQUILIBRIUM PROBLEM; IMAGE CONTENT; MEDICAL IMAGE COMPUTING; MULTIMODAL IMAGE REGISTRATION; RANDOM WALK; SHADOW DETECTIONS; SHADOW REGIONS; ULTRASOUND ATTENUATION; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; ULTRASOUND SYSTEM;

RANDOM PROCESSES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSMISSIONS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ULTRASONICS;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84866093442     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2012.07.005     Document Type: Article

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