Speckle reducing anisotropic diffusion for 3D ultrasound images

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 461-470

  Sun, Qingling ^a   Hossack, John A ^b   Tang, Jinshan ^a   Acton, Scott T ^a,b  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

3D SRAD; Anisotropic diffusion; Speckle reduction; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

INSTANTANEOUS COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION (ICOV); LEE FILTERS; SPECKLE REDUCING ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION (SRAD); ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; OPTICAL FILTERS; SPECKLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONICS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 8444236328     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2004.08.001     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. http://www.cs.uwa.edu.au/∼bernard/us3d.html
2. F.W. Kremkau Diagnostic ultrasound: principles and instruments 2003 Saunders New York
3. T. Tuthill, J. Krucker, J. Fowlkes, and P. Carson Automated three-dimensional US frame positioning computed from elevational speckle decorrelation Radiology 209 2 1998 575 582
4. P. Detmer, G. Bashein, T. Hodges, K. Beach, E. Filer, D. Burns, and D. Strandness 3D ultrasonic image feature localization based on magnetic scanhead tracking: in vitro calibration and validation Ultrasound Med Biol 20 2 1994 923 936
5. D. Gobbi, R. Comeau, and T. Peters Ultrasound probe tracking for real-time ultrasound/MRI overly and visualization of brain shift Presented at medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention-MIMCCAI'99, Berlin, Germany 1999
6. D. King, D.J. King, and M. Shao Three-dimensional spatial registration and interactive display of position and orientation of real-time ultrasound images J Ultrasound Med 9 9 1990 525 532
7. http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/research/Biomed_Eng/cam_3dus.html
8. J.A. Hossack, T.S. Sumanaweera, and J.S. Ha Quantitative 3D diagnostic ultrasound imaging using a modified transducer array and an automatted image tracking technique IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control 49 8 2002 1029 1038
9. http://www.ljbdev.com/speckle.html
10. R.N. Czerwinski, D.L. Jones, and W.D. O'Brien Ultrasound speckle reduction by directional median filtering Proceeding of international conference on image process vol. 1 1995 pp. 358-361
11. J.H. Hokland, and T. Taxt Ultrasound speckle reduction using harmonic oscillator models IEEE Trans on Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control 41 2 1994 215 224
12. Y. Yu, and S. Acton Speckle reducing anisotropic diffusion IEEE Trans Image Process 11 11 2002 1260 1270
13. Yu, Y. Ultrasound image enhancement for detection of contours using speckle reducing anisotropic diffusion, PhD dissertation; May 2003.
14. J.S. Lee Digital image enhancement and noise filtering by using local statistics IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Machine Intell PAMI-2 1980 165 168
15. V.S. Frost, J.A. Stiles, K.S. Shanmugan, and J.C. Holtzman A model for radar images and its application to adaptive digital filtering of multiplicative noise IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Machine Intell PAMI-4 1982 157 165
16. M. Scherrer-Gosbie, W. Steudel, P.R. Hunziker, G.P. Foster, L. Garrido, N. Liel-Cohen, W.M. Zapol, and M.H. Picard Determination of Right Ventricular Structure and Function in Normoxic and Hypoxic Mice: a Transesophageal Echocardiographic Study Circulation 98 1998 1015 1021
17. D. Dawson, C.A. Lygate, J. Saunders, J.E. Schneider, X. Ye, K. Hulbert, J.A. Noble, and S. Neubauer Quantitative 3-Dimensional Echocardiography for Accurate and Rapid Cardiac Phenotype Characterization in Mice Circulation 110 2004 1632 1637
18. J.C. Bambre, and R.J. Dickinson Ultrasonic B-scanning: a computer simulation Phys Med Biol 25 3 1980 463 479
19. W.K. Pratt Digital image processing 1978 Wiley New York pp. 495-501
20. A. Canny Computational approach to edge detection IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Machine Intell 8 6 1986 679 698
21. Y. Yu, and S.T. Acton Three-dimensional speckle reducing anisotropic diffusion Proceedings of the 37th asilomar conference on signals, systems and computers 2003
22. http://143.129.203.3/visielab/sijbers/filter.html