Motion Estimation Using the Firefly Algorithm in Ultrasonic Image Sequence of Soft Tissue

Joint Authors

Horng, Ming-Huwi
Chao, Chih-Feng
Chen, Yu-Chan

Source

Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine

Issue

Vol. 2015, Issue 2015 (31 Dec. 2015), pp.1-8, 8 p.

Publisher

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Publication Date

2015-03-19

Country of Publication

Egypt

No. of Pages

8

Main Subjects

Medicine

Abstract EN

Ultrasonic image sequence of the soft tissue is widely used in disease diagnosis; however, the speckle noises usually influenced the image quality.

These images usually have a low signal-to-noise ratio presentation.

The phenomenon gives rise to traditional motion estimation algorithms that are not suitable to measure the motion vectors.

In this paper, a new motion estimation algorithm is developed for assessing the velocity field of soft tissue in a sequence of ultrasonic B-mode images.

The proposed iterative firefly algorithm (IFA) searches for few candidate points to obtain the optimal motion vector, and then compares it to the traditional iterative full search algorithm (IFSA) via a series of experiments of in vivo ultrasonic image sequences.

The experimental results show that the IFA can assess the vector with better efficiency and almost equal estimation quality compared to the traditional IFSA method.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Chao, Chih-Feng& Horng, Ming-Huwi& Chen, Yu-Chan. 2015. Motion Estimation Using the Firefly Algorithm in Ultrasonic Image Sequence of Soft Tissue. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine،Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1057866

Modern Language Association (MLA)

Chao, Chih-Feng…[et al.]. Motion Estimation Using the Firefly Algorithm in Ultrasonic Image Sequence of Soft Tissue. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine No. 2015 (2015), pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1057866

American Medical Association (AMA)

Chao, Chih-Feng& Horng, Ming-Huwi& Chen, Yu-Chan. Motion Estimation Using the Firefly Algorithm in Ultrasonic Image Sequence of Soft Tissue. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine. 2015. Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1057866

Data Type

Journal Articles

Language

English

Notes

Includes bibliographical references

Record ID

BIM-1057866