Ultrasound speckle reduction using modified gabor filters

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 530-538

  Dantas, Ricardo G ^a   Costa, Eduardo T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FILTERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONICS;

DIRECTIVE FILTERING (DF); SPECKLE ARTIFACTS; SPECKLE REDUCTION; SPLIT SPECTRUM PROCESSING (SSP);

SPECKLE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33947651627     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.276     Document Type: Article

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