Speckle Reduction in Medical Ultrasound: A Novel Scatterer Density Weighted Nonlinear Diffusion Algorithm Implemented as a Neural-Network Filter.
Ahmed M. BadawiMuhammad Ali RushdiPublished in: EMBC (2006)
Keyphrases
- speckle reduction
- medical ultrasound
- ultrasound images
- speckle noise
- anisotropic diffusion
- nonlinear diffusion
- median filter
- edge preserving
- expectation maximization
- noise reduction
- synthetic and real images
- image restoration
- em algorithm
- wavelet domain
- feature extraction
- low contrast
- additive noise
- denoising
- feature vectors