A novel multiscale nonlinear diffusion method for ultrasonic speckle reduction

Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 34-37

  Zhang, Fan ^a   Koh, Liang Mong ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Adaptive filtering; Laplacian pyramid; Multiscale; Nonlinear diffusion; Speckle reduction; Ultrasound image

Indexed keywords

LAPLACIAN PYRAMID; MULTISCALE; NONLINEAR DIFFUSION; SPECKLE REDUCTION; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; DIFFUSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 21544433278     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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