Speckle reduction in medical ultrasound images using a new multiscale bivariate Bayesian mmse-based method

2007 IEEE 15th Signal Processing and Communications Applications, SIU

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Forouzanfar, Mohamad ^a   Moghaddam, Hamid Abrishami ^a   Dehghani, Maryam ^a  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CANNING; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECKLE; TWO DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

BAYESIAN; BAYESIAN ESTIMATORS; BAYESIAN TECHNIQUES; BIVARIATE; BIVARIATE ALPHA-STABLE DISTRIBUTIONS; DIRECTIONAL SELECTIVITY; DUAL-TREE COMPLEX WAVELET TRANSFORM; HEAVY-TAILED; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING; MULTI SCALING; SHIFT-INVARIANCE; SPECKLE REDUCTION; STATISTICAL MODELLING; STRUCTURAL FEATURES; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

EID: 50249153038     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SIU.2007.4298552     Document Type: Conference Paper

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