Smoothing of ultrasound images using a new selective average filter.
Alex F. de AraujoChristos E. ConstantinouJoão Manuel R. S. TavaresPublished in: Expert Syst. Appl. (2016)
Keyphrases
- ultrasound images
- speckle noise
- filtering scheme
- speckle reduction
- medical ultrasound
- speckle reducing anisotropic diffusion
- edge detection
- gaussian filter
- noise reduction
- echocardiographic images
- image filtering
- multiplicative noise
- filtering process
- image guidance
- active contour segmentation
- ultrasound imaging
- edge preserving
- median filter