Multiscale nonlinear diffusion and shock filter for ultrasound image enhancement

Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1972-1977

  Fan, Zhang ^a   Yang, Mo Yoo ^b   Lichen, Zhang ^a   Koh, Liang Mong ^a   Kim, Yongmin ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAPLACIAN PYRAMID-BASED NONLINEAR DIFFUSION AND SHOCK FILTER (LPNDSF); REAL ULTRASOUND IMAGE; SHOCK FILTER; SPECKLE REDUCING ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION (SRAD);

LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; ULTRASONICS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 33845562728     PISSN: 10636919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2006.203     Document Type: Conference Paper

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