IEEE transactions on medical imaging.
Publisher:
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,
Frequency: Monthly, 1999-
Country: United States
Language: English
Author(s):
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers., IEEE Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Society.
Start Year:1982 -
ISSN:
0278-0062 (Print)
1558-254X (Electronic)
0278-0062 (Linking)
1558-254X (Electronic)
0278-0062 (Linking)
Impact Factor
10.6
2022
| NLM ID: | 8310780 |
| (OCoLC): | 07677152 |
| (DNLM): | I03785000(s) |
| Coden: | ITMID4 |
| Classification: | W1 IE224D |
Tissue characterization of equine tendons with clinical B-scan images using a shock filter thinning algorithm. The fiber bundle density (FBD) calculated from ultrasound B-scan images of the equine superficial digital flexor tendon (SDFT) can serve as an objective measurement to characterize the three metacarpal sites of normal SDFTs, and also to discriminate a healthy SDFT from an injured one. In this paper, we propose a shock filter algorithm for the thinning of hyper-echoic structures observed in B-scan images of the SDFT. This algorithm is further enhanced by applying closing morphological operations on filtered images to facilitate extraction and quantification of fiber bundle fascicles. The mean F...