Inter-scale wavelet analysis for speckle reduction in thyroid ultrasound images

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 117-127

  Tsantis, S ^a   Dimitropoulos, N ^b   Ioannidou, M ^b   Cavouras, D ^c   Nikiforidis, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b Euromedica Medical Center   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coarse to fine; Local maxima; Singularity detection; Speckle reduction; Thyroid nodules; Ultrasound images

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKPROPAGATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPECKLE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

LOCAL MAXIMA; SINGULARITY DETECTION; SPECKLE REDUCTION; THYROID NODULES; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; THYROID GLAND;

ALGORITHMS; GREECE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 33947595347     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2006.11.006     Document Type: Article

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