Handbook of Speckle Filtering and Tracking in Cardiovascular Ultrasound Imaging and Video

This is the first book to combine speckle imaging and video filtering and tracking, and their applications. It provides different levels of material to researchers interested in developing imaging and video systems with better quality by limiting the corruption of speckle noise in their systems.

List of contents

• Part I: Introduction to speckle noise in ultrasound imaging and video
  
  
  • Chapter 1: A brief review of ultrasound imaging and video
  
  
  • Chapter 2: Speckle physics
  
  
  • Chapter 3: Statistical models for speckle noise and Bayesian deconvolution of ultrasound images
  
  
  • Chapter 4: Summary
  
  
  
  
  
• Part II: Speckle filtering
  
  
  • Chapter 5: Introduction to speckle filtering
  
  
  • Chapter 6: An overview of despeckle-filtering techniques
  
  
  • Chapter 7: Linear despeckle filtering
  
  
  • Chapter 8: Nonlinear despeckle filtering
  
  
  • Chapter 9: Wavelet despeckle filtering
  
  
  • Chapter 10: A comparative evaluation on linear and nonlinear despeckle filtering techniques
  
  
  • Chapter 11: Summary and future directions
  
  
  
  
  
• Part III: Speckle tracking
  
  
  • Chapter 12: Introduction to speckle tracking in ultrasound video
  
  
  • Chapter 13: Principles of speckle tracking
  
  
  • Chapter 14: Techniques for speckle tracking: block matching
  
  
  • Chapter 15: Techniques for tracking: image registration
  
  
  • Chapter 16: Cardiac strain estimation
  
  
  • Chapter 17: Combined techniques of filtering and speckle tracking
  
  
  • Chapter 18: Summary and future directions
  
  
  
  
  
• Part IV: Selected applications
  
  
  • Chapter 19: Segmentation of the carotid artery IMT in ultrasound
  
  
  • Chapter 20: Ultrasound carotid plaque video segmentation
  
  
  • Chapter 21: Ultrasound asymptomatic carotid plaque image analysis for the prediction of the risk of stroke
  
  
  • Chapter 22: 3D segmentation and texture analysis of the carotid arteries
  
  
  • Chapter 23: Carotid artery mechanics assessed by ultrasound
  
  
  • Chapter 24: Carotid artery wall motion and strain analysis using tracking
  
  
  • Chapter 25: IVUS tracking: advantages and disadvantages of intravascular ultrasound in the detection of artery geometrical features and plaque type morphology
  
  
  • Chapter 26: Introduction to speckle tracking in cardiac ultrasound imaging
  
  
  • Chapter 27: Assessment of systolic and diastolic heart failure
  
  
  • Chapter 28: Myocardial elastography and electromechanical wave imaging
  
  
  • Chapter 29: Summary and future directions
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Summary

  This is the first book to combine speckle imaging and video filtering and tracking, and their applications. It provides different levels of material to researchers interested in developing imaging and video systems with better quality by limiting the corruption of speckle noise in their systems.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jan D'Hooge (Editor), Jan (Professor D'Hooge (Editor), Christos P. Loizou (Editor), Christos P. (Adjunct Professor Loizou (Editor), Constantinos S. Pattichis (Editor), Constantinos S. (Professor Pattichis (Editor)
• Publisher: Institution of Engineering & Technology
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9781785612909
• ISBN: 978-1-78561-290-9
• No. of pages: 704
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 236 mm x 38 mm
• Weight: 1270 g
• Series: Healthcare Technologies; Healthcare Technologies
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine