Despeckling of medical ultrasound images using data and rate adaptive lossy compression

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 743-754

  Gupta, Nikhil ^a   Swamy, M N S ^a   Plotkin, Eugene ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Image compression; Simultaneous image denoising and compression; Ultrasound image despeckling; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

COSINE TRANSFORMS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

LAPLACIAN DISTRIBUTIONS; SIMULTANEOUS IMAGE DENOISING AND COMPRESSION; ULTRASOUND IMAGE DESPECKLING; WAVELETS;

ULTRASONICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMPRESSION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 20744432186     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2005.847401     Document Type: Article

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