Real-time speckle reduction and coherence enhancement in ultrasound imaging via nonlinear anisotropic diffusion

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 997-1014

  Abd Elmoniem, Khaled Z ^a,b   Youssef, Abou Bakr M ^b   Kadah, Yasser M ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Egypt)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Coherence enhancement; Nonlinear anisotropic diffusion; Speckle reduction; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

REAL TIME SPECKLE REDUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; COHERENT LIGHT; DIFFUSION; MEDICAL IMAGING; SPECKLE;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION; FILTER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOTION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; REDUCTION; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDIES; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY; LIVER; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED;

EID: 0036721081     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2002.1028423     Document Type: Article

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