Publication detail

ULTRASOUND TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION USING NAKAGAMI MODEL WITH TEMPORAL AVERAGING

Kolář, R. Jan, J. Chaloupka, V.

Original Title

ULTRASOUND TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION USING NAKAGAMI MODEL WITH TEMPORAL AVERAGING

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

We present a new application of Nakagami distribution in medical ultrasonographic (USG) imaging. The parameter m from this distribution is used for parametric imaging and shows an alternatively ultrasound image. The application is in USG image analysis or segmentation. Our method is based on three dimensional sliding window (2 spatial and 1 temporal dimension) and can be used for static objects only. We use the envelope of the radiofrequency (RF) signal for estimation. Both, the simulated and real RF data are used for testing of our estimator.

Keywords

ultrasound imaging, Nakagami distribution, RF signal, parameter estimation

Authors

Kolář, R. Jan, J. Chaloupka, V.

RIV year

2005

Released

1. 1. 2005

Publisher

IFMBE

Location

Praha

Pages from

616

Pages to

620

Pages count

5

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT15487,
  author="Radim {Kolář} and Jiří {Jan} and Václav {Chaloupka}",
  title="ULTRASOUND TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION USING NAKAGAMI MODEL WITH TEMPORAL AVERAGING",
  booktitle="IFMBE Proceedings - EMBEC 2005",
  year="2005",
  series="IFMBE",
  number="11",
  pages="616--620",
  publisher="IFMBE",
  address="Praha"
}