Ultrasound despeckling using an adaptive window stochastic approach

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2549-2552

  Tay, Peter C ^a   Acton, Scott T ^a   Hossack, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ultrasound despeckling

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE WINDOWS; B-MODE ULTRASOUND IMAGES; DE-SPECKLING; FILTERING METHOD; HOMOGENEOUS REGIONS; LOCAL AVERAGING; LOCAL EXTREMUM; LOCAL MEAN; PIXEL VALUES; STOCHASTIC APPROACH; STOCHASTIC PROCESS;

IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 38049022690     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2006.312979     Document Type: Conference Paper

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