Ultrasound elastography using multiple images

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 314-329

  Rivaz, Hassan ^a   Boctor, Emad M ^a   Choti, Michael A ^a   Hager, Gregory D ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Elasticity imaging; Expectation Maximization (EM); Liver ablation; Strain imaging; Ultrasound elastography

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; COST FUNCTIONS; ELASTICITY; ESTIMATION; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STRAIN; ULTRASONICS;

CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DISPLACEMENT CONTINUITY; DISPLACEMENT ESTIMATION; ELASTICITY IMAGING; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; ITERATIVELY REWEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES; STRAIN IMAGING; ULTRASOUND ELASTOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; COMPRESSION; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGING PHANTOM; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER TUMOR; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84890843168     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2013.11.002     Document Type: Article

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