Ultrasound image despeckling/denoising based on a novel multi-transducer architecture

Proceedings - IEEE 14th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, BIBE 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 62-68

  Tsakalakis, Michail ^a   Bourbakis, Nikolaos G ^a  

^a Wright State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Despeckling; Frequency Compounding; Ultrasound Imaging

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SOFTWARE TESTING; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

DE-SPECKLING; FREQUENCY COMPOUNDING; MUTUAL INFORMATION MEASURES; PEAK SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASOUND IMAGE DESPECKLING; ULTRASOUND IMAGE PROCESSING; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84927539151     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIBE.2014.39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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