A review on medical image denoising algorithms

SVM Sagheer, SN George - Biomedical signal processing and control, 2020 - Elsevier
Over the past two decades, medical imaging and diagnostic techniques have gained
immense attraction due to the rapid development in computing, internet, data storage and …

Speckle noise reduction in ultrasound images for improving the metrological evaluation of biomedical applications: an overview

CA Duarte-Salazar, AE Castro-Ospina… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, many studies have examined filters for eliminating or reducing speckle
noise, which is inherent to ultrasound images, in order to improve the metrological …

Nonlocal means-based speckle filtering for ultrasound images

P Coupé, P Hellier, C Kervrann… - IEEE transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In image processing, restoration is expected to improve the qualitative inspection of the
image and the performance of quantitative image analysis techniques. In this paper, an …

Speckle reduction in medical ultrasound images using an unbiased non-local means method

PV Sudeep, P Palanisamy, J Rajan… - … Signal Processing and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Enhancement of ultrasound (US) images is required for proper visual inspection and further
pre-processing since US images are generally corrupted with speckle. In this paper, a new …

Ultrasound despeckling for contrast enhancement

PC Tay, CD Garson, ST Acton… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Images produced by ultrasound systems are adversely hampered by a stochastic process
known as speckle. A despeckling method based upon removing outlier is proposed. The …

SRBF: Speckle reducing bilateral filtering

S Balocco, C Gatta, O Pujol, J Mauri… - Ultrasound in medicine & …, 2010 - Elsevier
Speckle noise negatively affects medical ultrasound image shape interpretation and
boundary detection. Speckle removal filters are widely used to selectively remove speckle …

Ultrasound image enhancement using structure oriented adversarial network

D Mishra, S Chaudhury, M Sarkar… - IEEE Signal Processing …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we aim to develop a deep adversarial despeckling approach to enhance the
quality of ultrasound images. Most of the existing approaches target a complete removal of …

Non-local adaptive hysteresis despeckling approach for medical ultrasound images

M Rajabi, H Golshan, RPR Hasanzadeh - Biomedical Signal Processing …, 2023 - Elsevier
Speckle noise is a major problem in medical ultrasound imaging that reduces the image
quality and leads to a negative impact on further diagnosis. In this paper, aiming to alleviate …

An extensive review on Despeckling of medical ultrasound images using various transformation techniques

T Joel, R Sivakumar - Applied Acoustics, 2018 - Elsevier
In recent years, the ultrasound imaging plays a major role in the medical field. It is the
diagnostic imaging technique in which the diagnosis has become more complex due to the …

Advancements in Deep Learning for B-Mode Ultrasound Segmentation: A Comprehensive Review

MY Ansari, IAC Mangalote, PK Meher… - … on Emerging Topics …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound (US) is generally preferred because it is of low-cost, safe, and non-invasive. US
image segmentation is crucial in image analysis. Recently, deep learning-based methods …