A real time speckle noise cleaning filter for ultrasound images

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 341-346

  Mazumdar, B ^a   Mediratta, A ^a   Bhattacharyya, J ^b   Banerjee, S ^a  

^a HT Kharagpur ^*  (India)

^b INTEL TECHNOLOGY INDIA PVT LTD   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; ULTRASONICS; VLSI CIRCUITS;

AGGRESSIVE REGION GROWING FILTER (ARGF); PIPELINING; SPECKLE NOISE CLEANING FILTERS; TUNABLE FILTERS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33845582747     PISSN: 10637125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CBMS.2006.26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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