Nonlocal means-based speckle filtering for ultrasound images

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2221-2229

  Coupé, Pierrick ^a   Hellier, Pierre ^a   Kervrann, Charles ^a,b   Barillot, Christian ^a  

^a CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

^b UR341 National Agronomical Research Institute (INRA)   (France)

Author keywords

Additives; Distance measurement; Image restoration; No Index Terms Provided; Noise; Pixel; Probability density function; Speckle

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE WHITE GAUSSIAN NOISE; BAYESIAN FRAMEWORKS; IMAGE RESTORATION; NO INDEX TERMS PROVIDED; NOISE; NOISE MODELS; NONLOCAL; QUANTITATIVE IMAGE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; REAL IMAGES; SPECKLE FILTERING; SPECKLE REDUCTION; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; STRUCTURAL DETAILS; SYNTHETIC DATA; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ADDITIVES; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PIXELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RESTORATION; SPECKLE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS; WHITE NOISE;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 70349440554     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2009.2024064     Document Type: Article

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