Wavelet-based statistical approach for speckle reduction in medical ultrasound images

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 189-192

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

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

^b THAPAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

BayesShrink; Discrete wavelet transform; Median filter; Soft thresholding; Speckle reduction; Wiener filter

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPECKLE; ULTRASONICS;

BAYESIAN FRAMEWORK; GAUSSIAN MODELLING; ULTRASOUND IMAGE;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGITAL FILTERING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 2342442910     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02344630     Document Type: Article

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