Speckle noise reduction in ultrasound biomedical b-scan images using discrete topological derivative

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 276-286

  Damodaran, Nedumaran ^a   Ramamurthy, Sivakumar ^a   Velusamy, Sekar ^a   Kanakaraj Manickam, Gayathri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Canny edge detection; Discrete topological derivative; Performance metrics; PSNR; Speckle; Ultrasound biomedical B scan image

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DIFFUSION; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RADAR IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; TOPOLOGY; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

B-SCAN IMAGES; CANNY EDGE DETECTION; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PSNR; TOPOLOGICAL DERIVATIVES;

IMAGE DENOISING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; B SCAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRETE TOPOLOGICAL DERIVATIVE; FILTER; GALLBLADDER; IMAGE PROCESSING; KIDNEY; LIVER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NOISE REDUCTION; PANCREAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84855477506     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2011.10.021     Document Type: Article

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