A comparison of filters for ultrasound images

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3124, Issue , 2004, Pages 1035-1040

  Calíope, Priscila B ^a   Medeiros, Fátima N S ^a   Marques, Régis C P ^a   Costa, Rodrigo C S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REMOTE SENSING; SPECKLE;

RAYLEIGH; REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS; SPECKLE NOISE; SPECKLE REDUCTION; ULTRASOUND B-SCAN; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

EID: 35048894833     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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