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Ultrasound imaging is undoubtedly the most used imaging modality for diagnostic purposes. Unfortunately, it is accompanied by speckle which can degrade texture information by obscuring fine details like boundaries and edges. This work presents a method for despeckling ultrasound images by treating them with multiscale modified speckle reduction anisotropic diffusion model and Non-Subsampled shearlet transform (NSST). The method involves division of images using a non-subsampled Laplacian pyramid. This results in low and high frequency image components. Modified anisotropic diffusion is used on the low frequency part. The high frequency component, as subjected to shearlet function, generates noisy coefficients in various directions. These coefficients are further subjected to NSST thresholding. The denoised low and high frequency image components are then recombined to obtain the …