Boundary enhancement and speckle reduction for ultrasound images via salient structure extraction

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2300-2309

  Xie, Jun ^b   Jiang, Yifeng ^b   Tsui, Hung Tat ^a,b   Heng, Pheng Ann ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; LOCAL SEARCHING ALGORITHM; PERCEPTUAL SALIENCY MEASURE; SPECKLE REDUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ULTRASONICS; VECTORS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FILTER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SIMULATION; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33750342152     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.878088     Document Type: Article

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