Ultrasound speckle noise reduction via an adaptive edge-controlled variational method.
Célia A. Z. BarcelosLuciana E. S. R. VieiraPublished in: SMC (2014)
Keyphrases
- ultrasound images
- speckle noise
- variational methods
- edge detection
- speckle reduction
- ultrasound imaging
- optic flow
- medical ultrasound
- level set
- anisotropic diffusion
- approximate inference
- multiscale
- edge information
- noise reduction
- curve evolution
- low contrast
- image enhancement
- edge detector
- optical flow
- additive noise
- edge preserving
- flow field
- noisy images
- denoising
- median filter
- synthetic aperture radar
- sar images
- image processing
- signal to noise ratio
- probability distribution
- hidden markov models
- feature extraction
- image segmentation