Wavelet median denoising of ultrasound images

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4684 II, Issue , 2002, Pages 1151-1160

  Macey, Katherine E ^a   Page, Wyatt H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Open Networks Ltd   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Denoising; Gaussian; Median filter; Noise reduction; Non separable; Separable; Soft thresholding; Speckle; Ultrasound; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE ANALYSIS; NOISE ABATEMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; ULTRASONICS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

WAVELET MEDIAN DENOISING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0036028348     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.467073     Document Type: Article

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