Robust non-homomorphic approach for speckle reduction in medical ultrasound images

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 189-195

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

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

^b THAPAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Generalised Gaussian distribution; Generalised Nakagami distribution; MAP estimator; Redundant discrete wavelet transform; Speckle suppression; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BAYESIAN PROCESSOR; HOMOMORPHIC PROCESSING; ULTRASOUND (US) IMAGES; WAVELET COEFFICIENT;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; ECHOGRAPHY; GNDSHRINK METHOD; IMAGE QUALITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; WAVEFORM; WHITE NOISE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 18144377398     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02345953     Document Type: Article

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