A novel speckle reduction and contrast enhancement method based on fuzzy anisotropic diffusion

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4161-4164

  Zhang, Yingtao ^a   Cheng, H D ^a,b   Tian, Jiawei ^c   Huang, Jianghua ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Utah State University ^*  (United States)

^c HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; Contrast enhancement; Fuzzy entropy; Partial differential equation; Speckle reduction

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FUZZY ENTROPY; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL; SPECKLE REDUCTION;

DIFFUSION; ENTROPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

SPECKLE;

EID: 78651102551     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2010.5649132     Document Type: Conference Paper

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