Spatially adaptive thresholding in wavelet domain for despeckling of ultrasound images

IET Image Processing

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 147-162

  Bhuiyan, M I H ^a   Ahmad, M O ^a   Swamy, M N S ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC IMAGE PROCESSING; BAYESIAN; DE-NOISING; DE-SPECKLING; EDGE PRESERVATIONS; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; FAST METHODS; INVERSE GAUSSIAN; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI ESTIMATOR; MULTIPLICATIVE SPECKLE NOISE; SPATIALLY ADAPTIVE; SPECKLE NOISE; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; VISUAL QUALITIES; WAVELET DOMAIN;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 67650498521     PISSN: 17519659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-ipr.2007.0096     Document Type: Article

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