Nonlinear adaptive filters for speckle suppression in ultrasonic images

Signal Processing

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 357-372

  Kofidis, Eleftherios ^a   Theodoridis, Sergios ^b,c   Kotropoulos, Constantine ^d   Pitas, Ioannis ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c University of Patras and Computer Technology Institute   (Greece)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL FILTERS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SPECKLE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

HISTOGRAM; LEARNING VECTOR QUANTIZER; MEAN SQUARED ERROR L FILTER; NONLINEAR ADAPTIVE FILTERS; SPECKLE SUPPRESSION; ULTRASONIC IMAGES;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING;

EID: 0030217497     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-1684(96)00070-9     Document Type: Article

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