Aggressive region growing for speckle reduction in ultrasound images.
Yan ChenRuming YinPatrick J. FlynnShira L. BroschatPublished in: Pattern Recognit. Lett. (2003)
Keyphrases
- region growing
- speckle reduction
- ultrasound images
- edge detection
- speckle noise
- medical ultrasound
- image segmentation
- edge information
- anisotropic diffusion
- segmentation method
- multiscale
- edge detector
- segmentation algorithm
- image enhancement
- image processing
- signal to noise ratio
- segmentation result
- ultrasound imaging
- noisy images
- median filter
- region competition
- prostate segmentation
- multiresolution
- pairwise
- edge preserving