Non-Gaussian amplitude PDF modeling of ultrasound images based on a novel generalized Cauchy-Rayleigh mixture.
Mohammadreza Hassannejad BibalanHamidreza AmindavarPublished in: EURASIP J. Image Video Process. (2016)
Keyphrases
- ultrasound images
- gaussian distribution
- heavy tailed
- medical ultrasound
- speckle noise
- mixture model
- maximum likelihood
- speckle reduction
- echocardiographic images
- sar images
- gaussian mixture model
- ultrasound imaging
- active contour segmentation
- em algorithm
- generalized gaussian
- carotid artery
- edge detection
- image reconstruction
- expectation maximization
- probability distribution function