Locally adaptive wavelet domain Bayesian processor for denoising medical ultrasound images using Speckle modelling based on Rayleigh distribution

IEE Proceedings: Vision, Image and Signal Processing

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 129-135

  Gupta, S ^a   Chauhan, R C ^a   Saxena, S C ^b  

^a SANT LONGOWAL INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b THAPAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPECKLE; STATISTICAL METHODS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; WHITE NOISE;

IMAGE DENOISING ALGORITHM; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGES; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTION; SPECKLE NOISE;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 17244362537     PISSN: 1350245X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-vis:20050975     Document Type: Article

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