Fast adaptive ultrasound speckle reduction with bilateral filter on CUDA

5th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, iCBBE 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Jiang, Fengjiao ^a   Shi, Dan ^a   Liu, Dong C ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bilateral filter; GPU; Parallel processing; Speckle detection; Speckle reduction

Indexed keywords

BILATERAL FILTERS; GPU; PARALLEL PROCESSING; SPECKLE DETECTION; SPECKLE REDUCTION;

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SOFTWARE TESTING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

SPECKLE;

EID: 79960147396     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/icbbe.2011.5780213     Document Type: Conference Paper

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