Adaptive bilateral filtering for despeckling of medical ultrasound images

IEEE Region 10 Annual International Conference, Proceedings/TENCON

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1728-1733

  Farzana, E ^a   Tanzid, M ^a   Mohsin, K M ^a   Bhuiyan, M I H ^a   Hossain, Shahera ^b  

^a BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

^b KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE APPROACH; ADAPTIVE BILATERAL FILTERING; BILATERAL FILTERING; DE-SPECKLING; IMAGE STRUCTURES; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGES; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SPECKLE NOISE; SPECKLED IMAGES; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; VISUAL QUALITIES;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONICS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 79951632166     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TENCON.2010.5686140     Document Type: Conference Paper

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