Speckle suppression in ultrasonic images based on undecimated wavelets

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2003, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 470-478

  Argenti, Fabrizio ^a   Torricelli, Gionatan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Linear minimum mean square error filtering; Speckle filtering; Ultrasound image denoising; Undecimated discrete wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; NOISE ABATEMENT; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPECKLE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

LINEAR MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SPECKLE FILTERING; SPECKLE SUPPRESSION; ULTRASOUND IMAGE DENOISING; UNDECIMATED WAVELET TRANSFORM;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0038580000     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S1110865703211136     Document Type: Article

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