Fractional subpixel diffusion and fuzzy logic approach for ultrasound speckle reduction

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2962-2970

  Zhang, Yingtao ^a   Cheng, H D ^a,b   Tian, Jiawei ^c   Huang, Jianhua ^a   Tang, Xianglong ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Utah State University ^*  (United States)

^c HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; Breast ultrasound (BUS) imaging; FSFPD (fuzzy subpixel fractional partial difference); Fuzzy entropy; Speckle reduction; Subpixel

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; BREAST ULTRASOUND; FSFPD (FUZZY SUBPIXEL FRACTIONAL PARTIAL DIFFERENCE); FUZZY ENTROPY; SPECKLE REDUCTION; SUB PIXELS;

BUSES; DIFFUSION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; SPECKLE; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 77951253097     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2010.02.014     Document Type: Article

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