Computer-aided detection/diagnosis of breast cancer in mammography and ultrasound: a review

A Jalalian, SBT Mashohor, HR Mahmud, MIB Saripan… - Clinical imaging, 2013 - Elsevier
Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among women worldwide. Early detection
of breast cancer can increase treatment options and patients' survivability. Mammography is …

Ultrasound image enhancement: A review

SHC Ortiz, T Chiu, MD Fox - Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 2012 - Elsevier
Medical ultrasound imaging uses pulsed acoustic waves that are transmitted and received
by a hand-held transducer. This is a mature technology that it is widely used around the …

Automated breast cancer detection and classification using ultrasound images: A survey

HD Cheng, J Shan, W Ju, Y Guo, L Zhang - Pattern recognition, 2010 - Elsevier
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death for women all over the world. Since the
cause of the disease remains unknown, early detection and diagnosis is the key for breast …

Beamforming and speckle reduction using neural networks

D Hyun, LL Brickson, KT Looby… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With traditional beamforming methods, ultrasound B-mode images contain speckle noise
caused by the random interference of subresolution scatterers. In this paper, we present a …

Application of wavelet techniques for cancer diagnosis using ultrasound images: a review

VK Sudarshan, MRK Mookiah, UR Acharya… - Computers in biology …, 2016 - Elsevier
Ultrasound is an important and low cost imaging modality used to study the internal organs
of human body and blood flow through blood vessels. It uses high frequency sound waves to …

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 …

Echocardiographic speckle reduction comparison

S Finn, M Glavin, E Jones - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a detailed description and comparison of speckle reduction of medical
ultrasound, and in particular echocardiography, is presented. Fifteen speckle reduction …

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 …

Dehazing ultrasound using diffusion models

TSW Stevens, FC Meral, J Yu… - … on Medical Imaging, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Echocardiography has been a prominent tool for the diagnosis of cardiac disease. However,
these diagnoses can be heavily impeded by poor image quality. Acoustic clutter emerges …

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 …