Improvement of ultrasound image based on wavelet transform: Speckle reduction and edge enhancement

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5747, Issue II, 2005, Pages 1085-1092

  Kim, Yong Sun ^a   Ra, Jong Beom ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; Directional filtering; Edge enhancement; Eigen analysis; Speckle noise reduction; Ultrasound image; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NOISE ABATEMENT; SPECKLE; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; DIRECTIONAL FILTERING; EDGE ENHANCEMENT; EIGEN-ANALYSIS; SPECKLE NOISE REDUCTION; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 23844533670     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.595129     Document Type: Conference Paper

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