A generalized correlation-based model for out-of-plane motion estimation in freehand ultrasound

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 186-199

  Afsham, Narges ^a   Najafi, Mohammad ^a   Abolmaesumi, Purang ^a   Rohling, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fully developed speckle (FDS); out of plane motion estimation; sensorless freehand ultrasound; speckle statistics; ultrasound beam profile

Indexed keywords

FULLY DEVELOPED SPECKLES; OUT-OF-PLANE MOTION; SENSORLESS FREEHAND ULTRASOUNDS; SPECKLE STATISTICS; ULTRASOUND BEAMS;

ESTIMATION; HISTOLOGY; LINEAR REGRESSION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPECKLE; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ULTRASONICS;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEEF; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ECHOGRAPHY; FREEHAND ULTRASOUND; FULLY DEVELOPED SPECKLE; MOTION; NONHUMAN; OUT OF PLANE MOTION ESTIMATION; PHANTOM; PIGEON THORAX; RICIAN INVERSE GAUSSIAN; ROTATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STATISTICS; TURKEY (BIRD); ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MOTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84892430121     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2013.2283969     Document Type: Article

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