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Published on: May 11, 2014
Study of ultrasonic echo envelope based on Nakagami-inverse Gaussian distribution
1School of Computer and Systems Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 110 067. karmeshu_jnu@yahoo.com
Abstract:
A new probability density function (pdf) to describe the envelope of the backscattered echoes from tissues is proposed. The combined effect of multiple scattering and randomness arising from local and global variations in scattering cross-section is captured through Nakagami-inverse Gaussian distribution (NIGD). The proposed distribution has the advantage that it has a closed form unlike the realistic Nakagami-lognormal distribution (NLD). The degree of closeness, as measured in terms of Kullback-Leibler (KL) distance between two probability distributions is computed. It is shown that NIGD much more closely approximates NLD compared to Nakagami-gamma distribution (NGD) used to model such problems.
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