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 …

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 …

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 …

Anisotropic diffusion filtering is highly dependent on some crucial parameters, such as the
conductance function, the gradient threshold parameter and the stop** time of the iterative …

In this paper, we consider a variational restoration model consisting of the I-divergence as
data fitting term and the total variation semi-norm or nonlocal means as regularizer for …

Ultrasound (US) imaging exhibits considerable difficulties for medical visual inspection and
for development of automatic analysis methods due to speckle, which negatively affects the …

A new filtering method to remove Rician noise from magnetic resonance images is
presented. This filter relies on a robust estimation of the standard deviation of the noise and …

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 …

Medical ultrasound images are corrupted by speckle noise, which is multiplicative. This
noise limits the contrast resolution in these images and complicates image-based …

We address the denoising of images contaminated with multiplicative noise, eg speckle
noise. Classical ways to solve such problems are filtering, statistical (Bayesian) methods …