SRBF: Speckle reducing bilateral filtering

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1353-1363

  Balocco, Simone ^a   Gatta, Carlo ^a   Pujol, Oriol ^a,b   Mauri, Josepa ^c   Radeva, Petia ^a,b  

^a Computer Vision Center ^*  (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bilateral filter; Ultrasound speckle reduction

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SUPPORT; ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; BILATERAL FILTERING; BILATERAL FILTERS; BOUNDARY DETECTION; DATA SETS; EDGE PRESERVATIONS; EMBEDDED NOISE; FILTERED IMAGES; FILTERING METHOD; IMAGE FEATURES; IN-SILICO; IN-VIVO; LOCAL STATISTICS; MATRIX ARRAYS; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGES; NOISE STATISTICS; OBJECT BOUNDARIES; SPECKLE NOISE; SPECKLE REMOVAL; STATE OF THE ART; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; ULTRASOUND SPECKLE;

EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

SPECKLE;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; B SCAN; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL FILTERING; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE REDUCING BILATERAL FILTERING; ULTRASOUND;

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

EID: 77955379185     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2010.05.007     Document Type: Article

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