A novel method for speckle reduction and edge enhancement in ultrasonic images

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5637, Issue , 2005, Pages 469-476

  Xiao, Chang Yan ^a   Zhang, Su ^a   Cheng, Sheng ^a   Chen, Ya Zhu ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptive filter; Nonlinear diffusion; Speckle suppression; Ultrasonic image

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ALGORITHMS; CONVOLUTION; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE COMPRESSION; LOW PASS FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SET THEORY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE;

ADAPTIVE SPECKLE SUPPRESSION FILTERS (ASSF); NONLINEAR DIFFUSIONS; SPECKLE SUPPRESSION; ULTRASONIC WAVELENGTHS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 19844378256     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.575389     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (13)

1. Bamber J.C., Daft C. Adaptive filtering for reduction of speckle in ultrasonic pulse-echo images. Ultrason., 1986, 24: 41-44.
2. Abd-Elmoniem, K.Z., Youssef A.M., Kadah Y.M. Real-Time speckle reduction and coherence enhancement in ultrasound imaging via nonlinear anisotropic diffusion. IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering, 2002, 49:997-1014.
3. Yu Y., Acton S.T. Speckle reducing anisotropic diffusion. IEEE Trans. Image Processing, 2002, 11: 1260-1270.
4. Czerwinski, R.N., Jones, D.L., O'Brien, W.D. Line and boundary detection in speckle images. IEEE Trans. Image Processing, 1998, 7: 1700-1714.
5. Czerwinski, R.N., Jones, D.L., O'Brien, W.D. Detection of lines and boundaries in speckle images-application to medical ultrasound. IEEE Trans. Image Processing, 1999, 18: 126-136.
6. Pathak S.D., Chalana V., Haynor D.R., Kim Y. Edge-guided boundary delineation in prostate ultrasound images, IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., 2000, 19: 1211-1219.
7. Guo Shengwen, Luo Limin. An Adaptive Speckle Suppression and Edge Enhancement Technique, Journal of Electronics (China), 2003, 20:353-361.
8. Dutt V., Greenleaf J. F. Adaptive speckle reduction filter for Log-compressed B-scan images. IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., 1996,.15: 802-813.
9. Gerig G., Kubler O., Kikinis R., and Jolesz F. A., Nonlinear anisotropic filtering of MRI data, IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, 1992, 11: 221-232.
10. Black M.J., Sapiro G., Marimont D. H., Heeger D. Robust anisotropic diffusion, IEEE Trans. Image Processing, 1998, 7: 421-432.
11. Perona P., Malik J. Scale space and edge detection using anisotropic diffusion. IEEE Trans. PAMI, 1990, 12: 629-639.
12. Prager R.W., Gee A.H., Treece G.M., Herman L.H. Decompression and speckle detection for ultrasound images using the homodyned k-distribution. Pattern Recognition Letters, 2003, 24:705-713.
13. Weickert J. A review of nonlinear diffusion filtering, in Scale-Space Theory in Computer Science, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1997, 3-28.