A review on despeckling filters in ultrasound images for speckle noise reduction

SK Pal, A Bhardwaj, AP Shukla - … International Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound imaging is the most generally used in medical diagnosis and it is corrupted by
speckle noise, which is multiplicative. For a better diagnosis, there is also a need to …

Automated breast tumor detection and segmentation with a novel computational framework of whole ultrasound images

L Liu, K Li, W Qin, T Wen, L Li, J Wu, J Gu - Medical & biological …, 2018 - Springer
Due to the low contrast and ambiguous boundaries of the tumors in breast ultrasound (BUS)
images, it is still a challenging task to automatically segment the breast tumors from the …

A non-local low-rank framework for ultrasound speckle reduction

L Zhu, CW Fu, MS Brown… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2017 - openaccess.thecvf.com
AbstractSpeckle'refers to the granular patterns that occur in ultrasound images due to wave
interference. Speckle removal can greatly improve the visibility of the underlying structures …

[图书][B] Despeckle filtering for ultrasound imaging and video, volume I: Algorithms and software

CP Loizou, CS Pattichis - 2022 - books.google.com
It is well known that speckle is a multiplicative noise that degrades image and video quality
and the visual expert's evaluation in ultrasound imaging and video. This necessitates the …

Phase asymmetry ultrasound despeckling with fractional anisotropic diffusion and total variation

K Mei, B Hu, B Fei, B Qin - IEEE Transactions on Image …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose an ultrasound speckle filtering method for not only preserving various edge
features but also filtering tissue-dependent complex speckle noises in ultrasound images …

Breast ultrasound despeckling using anisotropic diffusion guided by texture descriptors

WG Flores, WC de Albuquerque Pereira… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2014 - Elsevier
Breast ultrasound (BUS) is considered the most important adjunct method to mammography
for diagnosing cancer. However, this image modality suffers from an intrinsic artifact called …

New fully automated method for segmentation of breast lesions on ultrasound based on texture analysis

W Gomez-Flores, BA Ruiz-Ortega - Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 2016 - Elsevier
The study described here explored a fully automatic segmentation approach based on
texture analysis for breast lesions on ultrasound images. The proposed method involves two …

Systematic evaluation on speckle suppression methods in examination of ultrasound breast images

X Feng, X Guo, Q Huang - Applied Sciences, 2016 - mdpi.com
Breast ultrasound is an important tool used in the medical treatment and diagnosis of breast
tumor. However, noise defined as speckles are generated inevitably. Although the existence …

An effective shearlet-based anisotropic diffusion technique for despeckling ultrasound medical images

O Moussa, N Khlifa, F Morain-Nicolier - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2023 - Springer
The speckle is usually described as a multiplicative noise that significantly corrupts the
quality and contrast in diagnostic ultrasound imaging. Therefore, the development of an …

Non-linear diffusion models for despeckling of images: achievements and future challenges

SK Jain, RK Ray - IETE Technical Review, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Speckle noise is a principal and unavoidable source of visual degradation in several real
world images obtained from coherent imaging systems such as ultrasound, SAR, and laser …