Singular Spectrum Analysis Applied to Backscattered Ultrasound Signals from In Vitro Human Cancellous Bone Specimens

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 302-312

  Pereira, Wagner C A ^a,b   Bridal, S Lori ^a   Coron, Alain ^a   Laugier, Pascal ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BONE; CORRELATION METHODS; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING;

SINGULAR SPECTRUM ANALYSIS (SSA); SPECTRAL AUTOCORRELATION (SAC); ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING;

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCANEUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VITRO STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CALCANEUS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 85047692885     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2004.1320786     Document Type: Article

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