Enhancement of the ultrasound images by modified anisotropic diffusion method

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1281-1291

  Mittal, Deepti ^a   Kumar, Vinod ^a   Saxena, Suresh Chandra ^a   Khandelwal, Niranjan ^b   Kalra, Naveen ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^b POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Enhancement; MSRAD; Speckle; SRAD; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; CONTRAST RESOLUTION; IMAGE PROCESS; MEDICAL EXPERTS; MSRAD; NONQUADRATIC REGULARIZATION; OBJECTIVE CRITERIA; PARAMETER SETTING; PRIMARY FACTORS; SPECKLE REDUCTION; SRAD; TEXTURE INFORMATION; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; VISUAL QUALITIES;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; PIXELS; SPECKLE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

IMAGE TEXTURE;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIVER; LIVER DISEASE; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES;

EID: 82755195090     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-010-0650-x     Document Type: Article

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