Aggressive region growing for speckle reduction in ultrasound images

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 4-5, 2003, Pages 677-691

  Chen, Yan ^a   Yin, Ruming ^b   Flynn, Patrick ^c   Broschat, Shira ^d  

^a Siemens Medical Imaging   (United States)

^b MAXIM INTEGRATED PRODUCTS   (United States)

^c University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^d Washington State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive filtering; Region growing; Speckle; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; SPECKLE; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0037290218     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(02)00174-5     Document Type: Article

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