Nonlocal total variation based on symmetric Kullback-Leibler divergence for the ultrasound image despeckling.
Shujun LiangFeng YangTiexiang WenZhewei YaoQinghua HuangChengke YePublished in: BMC Medical Imaging (2017)
Keyphrases
- kullback leibler divergence
- ultrasound images
- ultrasound imaging
- speckle noise
- mutual information
- speckle reduction
- probability density function
- information theoretic
- diffusion tensor
- anisotropic diffusion
- distance measure
- information theory
- denoising
- image denoising
- noisy images
- edge detection
- total variation
- marginal distributions
- volume data
- sar images
- similarity measure
- image analysis
- synthetic aperture radar
- wavelet domain
- noise reduction