Speckle reducing anisotropic diffusion

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1260-1270

  Yu, Yongjian ^a   Acton, Scott T ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; Image enhancement; Speckle reduction; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL FILTERS; GRADIENT METHODS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RADAR IMAGING; SPECKLE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ADDITIVE NOISE; ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; LAPLACIAN OPERATORS; SPECKLE REDUCTION;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 0036870577     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2002.804276     Document Type: Article

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