Despeckling of medical ultrasound images using Daubechies complex wavelet transform

Signal Processing

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 428-439

  Khare, Ashish ^a   Khare, Manish ^b   Jeong, Yongyeon ^c   Kim, Hongkook ^d   Jeon, Moongu ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

^b CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED COMPUTING   (India)

^c Chonnam National University Research Institute of Medical Sciences   (South Korea)

^d Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Daubechies complex wavelet transform; Medical image denoising; Speckle noise removal; Wavelet shrinkage

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX SCALING; COMPLEX WAVELET DOMAIN; COMPLEX WAVELET TRANSFORMS; COMPLEX WAVELETS; DAUBECHIES; DAUBECHIES COMPLEX WAVELET TRANSFORM; DE-SPECKLING; DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUND; EDGE POINT; MEDICAL IMAGE DENOISING; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGES; NOISY IMAGE; SHIFT INVARIANCE; SPECKLE NOISE REMOVAL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TEST IMAGES; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS; WAVELET DOMAIN; WAVELET SHRINKAGE;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; SHRINKAGE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

EID: 70349285987     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2009.07.008     Document Type: Article

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