Local statistics and non-local mean filter for speckle noise reduction in medical ultrasound image

J Yang, J Fan, D Ai, X Wang, Y Zheng, S Tang, Y Wang - Neurocomputing, 2016 - Elsevier
Medical ultrasound images are corrupted by speckle noise, which is multiplicative. This
noise limits the contrast resolution in these images and complicates image-based …

A comparative study on approaches to speckle noise reduction in images

A Maity, A Pattanaik, S Sagnika… - 2015 International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Noise refers to the random variation of intensity of a pixel, which modifies the actual
information of the image. As a result, pixels which appear in the image are not the actual …

Medical image denoising with recurrent residual u-net (r2u-net) base auto-encoder

S Nasrin, MZ Alom, R Burada… - 2019 IEEE national …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning (DL) approaches have been applied in different sectors of medical imaging
applications, ie classification, segmentation and detection tasks and shown superior …

Evaluation of various speckle reduction filters on medical ultrasound images

S Wu, Q Zhu, Y **e - … Conference of the IEEE Engineering in …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
At present, ultrasound is one of the essential tools for noninvasive medical diagnosis.
However, speckle noise is inherent in medical ultrasound images and it is the cause for …

Speckle filtering of ultrasound B-Scan Images-a comparative study between spatial and diffusion filters

R Sivakumar, MK Gayathri… - 2010 IEEE Conference …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Speckle noise is the inherent property of ultrasound B-Scan images which has been filtered
using well-established speckle reduction techniques. In this work, six spatial filters namely …

A novel approach for image denoising and performance analysis using SGO and APSO

VM Gupta, K Murthy, RS Shankar - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Image denoising is essential to extract the information contained in an image without errors.
A technique of using both wavelets and evolutionary computing tools is proposed to denoise …

[PDF][PDF] Medical Image Denoising Techniques against Hazardous Noises: An IQA Metrics Based Comparative Analysis

SM Boby, S Sharmin - International Journal of Image, Graphics and …, 2021 - mecs-press.org
Medical imaging has become a vital part of the early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of
many diseases. That's why image denoising is considered as a crucial pre-processing step …

SAR image denoising based on multifractal feature analysis and TV regularisation

SK Maji, RK Thakur, HM Yahia - IET Image Processing, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A new denoising technique is proposed in this study for synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
images corrupted by speckle noise. The authors method extract informative features from a …

[PDF][PDF] Despeckling of medical ultrasound images: a technical review

N Gupta, AP Shukla, S Agarwal - International Journal of Information …, 2016 - mecs-press.org
Acquisition of digital image and preprocessing methods plays a vital role in clinical
diagnosis. The ultrasound medical images are more popular than other imaging modalities …

A study on development of optimal noise filter algorithm for laser vision system in GMA welding

QQ Wu, JP Lee, MH Park, CK Park, IS Kim - Procedia Engineering, 2014 - Elsevier
In recent years, noise filter of image processing have been widely used in automated
manufacturing processes in noisy environment, such as removal of noise in arc welding …