Ultrasound speckle reduction by a SUSAN-controlled anisotropic diffusion method

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3083-3092

  Yu, Jinhua ^a   Tan, Jinglu ^a   Wang, Yuanyuan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; Nakagami distribution; Speckle reduction; Structure tensor; SUSAN

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; NOISE ABATEMENT; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; SPECKLE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; NAKAGAMI DISTRIBUTION; SPECKLE REDUCTION; STRUCTURE TENSORS; SUSAN;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 79960105691     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2010.04.006     Document Type: Article

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