Ultrasound-guided characterization of interstitial ablated tissue using RF time series: Feasibility study

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1608-1618

  Imani, Farhad ^a   Abolmaesumi, Purang ^b   Wu, Mark Z ^a   Lasso, Andras ^a   Burdette, Everett C ^c   Ghoshal, Goutam ^c   Heffter, Tamas ^c   Williams, Emery ^c   Neubauer, Paul ^c   Fichtinger, Gabor ^a   Mousavi, Parvin ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Acoustic MedSystems   (United States)

Author keywords

Characterization of ablated tissue region; tissue ablation; ultrasound RF time series

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER ROC CURVE (AUC); CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; TEMPORAL FEATURES; TISSUE ABLATIONS; ULTRASOUND ABLATION; ULTRASOUND SIGNAL; ULTRASOUND-GUIDED;

PLANNING; TIME SERIES; ULTRASONICS;

TISSUE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; EX VIVO STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; INTERSTITIAL ABLATED TISSUE; NONABLATED TISSUE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TISSUES; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ABLATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RADIO WAVES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SWINE;

EID: 84877903060     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2240300     Document Type: Article

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