Speckle reduction in ultrasound images by minimization of total variation

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 354-357

  Djemal, Khalifa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D EVRY VAL D ESSONNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NOISE ABATEMENT; SPECKLE;

SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SPECKLE REDUCTION; TOTAL VARIATION MINIMIZATION; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33749235164     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2005.1530402     Document Type: Conference Paper

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