Anisotropic diffusion filtering for ultrasound speckle reduction

Science China Technological Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 607-614

  Guan, Fada ^a,b   Ton, Phuc ^c   Ge, Shuaiping ^a   Zhao, Lina ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^c Roche Molecular Diagnostics   (United States)

^d FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

anisotropic diffusion filter; speckle reduction; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MEDIAN FILTERS; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; SPECKLE; ULTRASONICS;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION FILTERING; ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION FILTERS; ANISOTROPIC FILTERS; FILTERING METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; SPECKLE FILTERING; SPECKLE REDUCTION; ULTRASOUND SPECKLE;

INFORMATION FILTERING;

EID: 84896536204     PISSN: 16747321     EISSN: 18691900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11431-014-5483-7     Document Type: Article

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