Adaptive Wiener filtering for B-mode image improvement

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1992-October, Issue , 1992, Pages 1219-1222

  Hoess, A ^a,b   Ermert, H ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ADAPTIVE FILTERS; BIOINFORMATICS; IMAGE DENOISING; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ATTENUATION CHARACTERISTICS; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; FOCUSING EFFECT; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT ATTENUATION; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT; SPECIAL ALGORITHMS; WIENER FILTERING;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 78650984848     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.1992.275881     Document Type: Conference Paper

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