Finding out general tendencies in speckle noise reduction in ultrasound images

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 7786-7797

  Mateo, Juan L ^a   Fernández Caballero, Antonio ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN INFORMÁTICA DE ALBACETE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Digital image processing; Noise reduction; Speckle noise; Ultrasound images

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SPECKLE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING; FIELD II; NOISE REDUCTION; NOISE-CORRUPTED IMAGES; QUALITY METRICS; REAL IMAGES; SMOOTHING TECHNIQUES; SPECKLE NOISE; SPECKLE NOISE REDUCTIONS; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

EID: 60249085608     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.11.029     Document Type: Article

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