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Handbook of speckle filtering and tracking in cardiovascular ultrasound imaging and video /

Ultrasound imaging technology has experienced a dramatic change in the last 30 years. Because of its non-invasive nature and continuing improvements in image quality, ultrasound imaging is progressively achieving an important role in the assessment and characterization of cardiovascular imaging. Spe...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Loizou, Christos P., 1962- (Editor), Pattichis, Constantinos S. (Editor), D'hooge, Jan (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stevenage : The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2018.
Series:Healthcare technologies series ; 13.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Contents; Preface; Guide to book contents; Part I. Introduction to speckle noise in ultrasound imaging and video; 1. A brief review of ultrasound imaging and video / Alfred C.H. Yu; 2. Speckle physics / Jovana Janjic and Gijs van Soest; 3. Statistical models for speckle noise and Bayesian deconvolution of ultrasound images / Ningning Zhao, Adrian Basarab, Denis Kouame, and Jean-Yves Tourneret; 4. Summary / Christos P. Loizou; Part II. Speckle filtering; 5. Introduction to speckle filtering / Gabriel Ramos-Llorden, Santiago Aja-Fernandez, and Gonzalo Vegas-Sanchez-Ferrero
  • 6. An overview of despeckle-filtering techniques / Christos P. Loizou and Constantinos S. Pattichis; 7. Linear despeckle filtering / Christos P. Loizou and Constantinos S. Pattichis; 8. Nonlinear despeckle filtering / Santiago Aja-Fernandez, Gabriel Ramos-Llorden, and Gonzalo Vegas-Sanchez-Ferrero; 9. Wavelet despeckle filtering / Savita Gupta and Lakhwinder Kaur; 10. A comparative evaluation on linear and nonlinear despeckle filtering techniques / Christos P. Loizou; 11. Summary and future directions / Christos P. Loizou; Part III. Speckle tracking
  • 12. Introduction to speckle tracking in ultrasound video / Gijs A.G.M. Hendriks, Stein Fekkes, Kaj Gijsbertse and Chris L. De Korte; 13. Principles of speckle tracking / Brecht Heyde; 14. Techniques for speckle tracking: block matching / R.G.P. Lopata; 15. Techniques for tracking: image registration / Ariel Hernan Curiale, Gonzalo Vegas-Sanchez-Ferrero and Santiago Aja-Fernandez; 16. Cardiac strain estimation / Hanan Khamis and Dan Adam; 17. Combined techniques of filtering and speckle tracking / Martino Alessandrini; 18. Summary and future directions / Jan D'hooge and Lasse Lovstakken
  • Part IV. Selected applications;19. Segmentation of the carotid artery IMT in ultrasound / Kristen M. Meiburger, Cristina Caresio, Massimo Salvi, U. Rajendra Acharya, and Filippo Molinari; 20. Ultrasound carotid plaque video segmentation / Christos P. Loizou and Constantinos S. Pattichis; 21. Ultrasound asymptomatic carotid plaque image analysis for the prediction of the risk of stroke / Efthyvoulos Kyriacou and Andrew Nicolaides; 22. 3D segmentation and texture analysis of the carotid arteries / Aaron Fenster, Bernard Chiu, and Eranga Ukwatta
  • 23. Carotid artery mechanics assessed by ultrasound / R.G.P. Lopata, M.C.M. Rutten and M.R.H.M. van Sambeek; 24. Carotid artery wall motion and strain analysis using tracking / Spyretta Golemati and Konstantina S. Nikita; 25. IVUS tracking: advantages and disadvantages of intravascular ultrasound in the detection of artery geometrical features and plaque type morphology / V. Kigka, T. Exarchos, G. Rigas, A. Sakellarios, P. Siogkas, L.K. Michalis and D.I. Fotiadis; 26. Introduction to speckle tracking in cardiac ultrasound imaging / Damien Garcia, Pierre Lantelme and Eric Saloux