Highly Accurate Optic Flow Computation with Theoretically Justified Warping
International Journal of Computer Vision
Speckle Simulation Based on B-Mode Echographic Image Acquisition Model
CRV '07 Proceedings of the Fourth Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision
Coronary Occlusion Detection with 4D Optical Flow Based Strain Estimation on 4D Ultrasound
FIMH '09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart
Inter-frame Enhancement of Ultrasound Images Using Optical Flow
IVIC '09 Proceedings of the 1st International Visual Informatics Conference on Visual Informatics: Bridging Research and Practice
A Variational Model to Remove the Multiplicative Noise in Ultrasound Images
Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
A Database and Evaluation Methodology for Optical Flow
International Journal of Computer Vision
Histogram-Based Optical Flow for Motion Estimation in Ultrasound Imaging
Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
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Echocardiographic imaging provides various challenges for medical image analysis due to the impact of physical effects in the process of data acquisition. The most significant difference to other medical data is its high level of speckle noise that makes the use of conventional algorithms difficult. Motion analysis on ultrasound (US) data is often referred to as 'Speckle Tracking' which plays an important role in diagnosis and monitoring of cardiovascular diseases and the identification of abnormal cardiac motion. In this paper we address the problem of speckle noise within US images for estimating optical flow. We demonstrate that methods which directly use image intensities are inferior to methods using local features within the US images. Based on this observation we propose an optical flow method which uses histograms as a local feature of US images and show that this approach is more robust under the presence of speckle noise than classical optical flow methods.