Phase-preserving speckle reduction based on soft thresholding in quaternion wavelet domain

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Yipeng ^a   Jin, Jing ^a   Wang, Qiang ^a   Shen, Yi ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE WAVELETS; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTIONS; SOFT THRESHOLDING; SPECKLE REDUCTION; TEXTURE PRESENTATION; ULTRASOUND IMAGE PROCESSING; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS;

ALGORITHMS; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; IMAGE PROCESSING;

SPECKLE;

EID: 84876134455     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JEI.21.4.043009     Document Type: Article

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