Title
A comparison between generalized coherence factor and short-LAG spatial coherence methods
Date Issued
21 July 2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
IEEE Computer Society
Abstract
Typical ultrasound image beamforming is based on delay and sum of received echoes. Sound speed inhomogeneity, phase aberration and acoustic clutter induce errors in the beamformed signals. Therefore, coherence-based techniques such as Generalized Coherence Factor (GCF) and Short-lag Spatial Coherence (SLSC) have been developed to reduce these errors. GCF has been used as a weighting factor applied to the conventional image (b-mode), and SLSC has been used as a new standalone image. In this study, a new approach for comparison of both techniques is proposed by using GCF and SLSC as weighting factors and standalone images. Image contrast and contrast-to-noise (CNR) were evaluated to analyze the approaches' performance.
Start page
231
End page
234
Volume
2015-July
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica Ingeniería médica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84944321770
ISSN of the container
19457928
ISBN of the container
9781479923748
Conference
Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: 12th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2015
Sources of information: Directorio de Producción Científica Scopus