Artifact reduction of ultrasound nakagami imaging by combining multifocus image reconstruction and the noise-assisted correlation algorithm

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 53-69

  Tsui, Po Hsiang ^a   Tsai, Yu Wei ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

artifact; backscattering; envelope statistics; Nakagami image; tissue characterization

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BACKSCATTERING; IMAGE DENOISING; PHANTOMS; POLYSACCHARIDES; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; TISSUE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ARTIFACT; BACKSCATTERED STATISTICS; ENVELOPE STATISTICS; LINEAR ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; NAKAGAMI; RADIOFREQUENCY SIGNALS; SCATTERER CONCENTRATIONS; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84913619507     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: 10960910     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0161734614526379     Document Type: Article

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