Despeckle filtering software toolbox for ultrasound imaging of the common carotid artery

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 109-124

  Loizou, Christos P ^a,b   Theofanous, Charoula ^b   Pantziaris, Marios ^c   Kasparis, Takis ^b  

^a INTERCOLLEGE   (Cyprus)

^b CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^c CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Carotid artery; Despeckling; Image; Speckle; Texture analysis; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGE TEXTURE; MATLAB; MEDICAL IMAGING; NOISE ABATEMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; SPECKLE; TEXTURES; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

CAROTID ARTERY; DE-SPECKLING; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES (GUI); IMAGE; IMAGE QUALITY EVALUATION; OBJECTIVE IMAGE QUALITY; TEXTURE ANALYSIS; TEXTURE CHARACTERIZATIONS; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; FILTERING SOFTWARE; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

IMAGE QUALITY; SPECKLE;

ADULT; ADVENTITIA; AFTERIMAGE; ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION FILTER; ANISOTROPY; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; B SCAN; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COHERENT NONLINEAR ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION FILTER; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIGITAL FILTERING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GEOMETRIC DESPECKLE FILTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DESPECKLE FILTERING; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; IMAGING SOFTWARE; LINEAR DESPECKLE FILTER; MEDICAL EXPERT; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE REDUCTION; NONLINEAR DESPECKLE FILTER; SPECKLE REDUCING ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION FILTER; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; WIENER DESPECKLE FILTER; BRIGHTNESS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ULTRASOUND;

CAROTID ARTERY; DESPECKLING; IMAGE; SPECKLE; TEXTURE ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND;

ANISOTROPY; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; HUMANS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84895446978     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2014.01.018     Document Type: Article

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