Speckle Reduction in Ultrasound Images Using Nonisotropic Adaptive Filtering

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1677-1688

  Eom, Kie B ^a  

^a The George Washington University   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive directional filter; Speckle reduction; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

COHERENT IMAGING; DIRECTIONAL FILTERS; NON-ADDITIVE; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; POINT TARGETS; SHARP FEATURES; SPECKLE REDUCTION; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

ADAPTIVE FILTERS; ALGORITHMS; PIXELS; RADAR IMAGING; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

EDGE DETECTION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL FILTERING; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOISE REDUCTION; NONISOTROPIC ADAPTIVE DIRECTIONAL FILTERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMA FILTER; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE REDUCING ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION FILTER; SPECKLE REDUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; KIDNEY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PREGNANCY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 80052882382     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2011.05.847     Document Type: Article

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