On estimating de-speckled and speckle components from B-mode ultrasound images

2010 7th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 284-287

  Seabra, José C ^a   Sanches, João M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS AND ROBOTICS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

De speckling; Rayleigh; RF image retrieval; Tissue characterization; Ultrasound speckle

Indexed keywords

B-MODE DATA; B-MODE ULTRASOUND IMAGES; DE-SPECKLING; ECHOGENICITY; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RAYLEIGH; ROBUST METHODS; TEXTURE FEATURES; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; ULTRASONIC DATA; ULTRASOUND DATA; ULTRASOUND SPECKLE;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; DATA VISUALIZATION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL IMAGING; SPECKLE; TISSUE; VISUALIZATION;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 77955205773     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2010.5490355     Document Type: Conference Paper

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