Estimating blood vessel areas in ultrasound images using a deformable template model

Statistical Modeling

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 211-226

  Husby, Oddvar ^a   Rue, Haåvard ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Gaussian Markov random fields; interval estimates; specular reflection; ultrasound images

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993746179     PISSN: 1471082X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1471082X04st074oa     Document Type: Article

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