Rayleigh-Maximum-Likelihood Filtering for Speckle Reduction of Ultrasound Images.
Tuncer C. AysalKenneth E. BarnerPublished in: IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging (2007)
Keyphrases
- speckle reduction
- ultrasound images
- maximum likelihood
- sar images
- speckle noise
- synthetic aperture radar
- medical ultrasound
- median filter
- parameter estimation
- additive noise
- ultrasound imaging
- expectation maximization
- anisotropic diffusion
- em algorithm
- prostate segmentation
- edge preserving
- speckle reducing anisotropic diffusion
- structure preserving
- maximum a posteriori
- edge detection
- filtering scheme
- image registration