Speckle reduction through interactive evolution of a general order statistics filter for clinical ultrasound imaging

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 365-369

  Munteanu, Cristian ^a   Morales, Francisco Cabrera ^a   Ruiz Alzola, Juan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b Instituto Tecnologico de Canarias   (Spain)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithms; Speckle denoising; Subjective quality assessment; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; SPECKLE; ULTRASONICS;

INTERACTIVE TOOLS; QUALITY ASSESSMENTS; SPECKLE DENOISING; STATISTICS FILTER; TEST BEDS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FILTRATION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GYNECOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL EXPERT; OBSTETRICS; ONLINE SYSTEM; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 37349018070     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.897833     Document Type: Article

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