Evaluation of a Kalman-based block matching method to assess the bi-dimensional motion of the carotid artery wall in B-mode ultrasound sequences

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 573-585

  Zahnd, Guillaume ^a   Orkisz, Maciej ^a   Sérusclat, André ^b   Moulin, Philippe ^c,d   Vray, Didier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b LOUIS PRADEL HOSPITAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Block matching; Carotid artery; Kalman filter; Speckle tracking

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOCK MATCHING; BLOCK MATCHING METHODS; CAROTID ARTERY; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; REFERENCE TRAJECTORIES; SPECKLE TRACKING; TIME-SAVING TECHNIQUES;

DISEASES; ERRORS; KALMAN FILTERS; MOTION ESTIMATION; PIXELS; RISK PERCEPTION; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY FLOW; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KALMAN FILTER BASED BLOCK MATCHING METHOD; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS;

ALGORITHMS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOTION; MOVEMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84876700318     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2013.03.006     Document Type: Article

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