A review on speckle noise reduction techniques in ultrasound medical images based on spatial domain, transform domain and CNN methods

S Pradeep, P Nirmaladevi - IOP conference series: materials …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Ultrasonography is non-invasive and painless. In Ultrasonography the images are often
affected with Speckle noise. It is a multiplicative noise. To help the doctors to identify the …

Enhanced Wiener filter for ultrasound image restoration

F Baselice, G Ferraioli, M Ambrosanio… - Computer methods and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Background and Objective Speckle phenomenon strongly affects UltraSound (US)
images. In the last years, several efforts have been done in order to provide an effective …

[HTML][HTML] A new local structural similarity fusion-based thresholding method for homomorphic ultrasound image despeckling in NSCT domain

P Singh, M Diwakar, V Singh, S Kadry, J Kim - Journal of King Saud …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ultrasound is a diagnostic imaging technique to detect various illnesses related to the body's
internal organs. It is a non-invasive, safe, cost-effective, and simple imaging modality that …

Self-supervised transformer based non-local means despeckling of optical coherence tomography images

Q Zhou, M Wen, B Yu, C Lou, M Ding… - … Signal Processing and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) depends on the coherence characteristics of scattered
light to reveal tissue morphology. Therefore, OCT images are inevitably corrupted by …

Denoising of MR images using Kolmogorov-Smirnov distance in a Non Local framework

F Baselice, G Ferraioli, V Pascazio, A Sorriso - Magnetic resonance …, 2019 - Elsevier
Data coming from any acquisition system, such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging ones, are
affected by noise. Although modern high field scanners can reach high Signal to Noise …

Improved non-local self-similarity measures for effective speckle noise reduction in ultrasound images

F Mei, D Zhang, Y Yang - Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 2020 - Elsevier
Background and objective In the observed medical ultrasound image, there is always some
speckle noise which suppress the details of images and impairs the value of …

A homomorphic non-subsampled contourlet transform based ultrasound image despeckling by novel thresholding function and self-organizing map

P Singh, M Diwakar, S Singh, S Kumar… - Biocybernetics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The speckle noise leaves an adverse effect on ultrasound images due to which loss of
information occurs. Hence this paper proposes a homomorphic Non-Subsampled Contourlet …

Fuzzy logic based computational model for speckle noise removal in ultrasound images

M Nadeem, A Hussain, A Munir - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2019 - Springer
High level of uncertainty is always present due to impulsive noise in ultrasonic images,
which may put negative effect on image interpretation, quantitative measurement and …

Ultrasound speckle reduction using adaptive wavelet thresholding

AK Bedi, RK Sunkaria - Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, 2022 - Springer
Ultrasound is the most widely used biomedical imaging modality for the purpose of
diagnosis. It often comes with speckle that results in reduced quality of images by hiding fine …

Ratio-based nonlocal anisotropic despeckling approach for SAR images

G Ferraioli, V Pascazio… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although the first filtering algorithms have been proposed more than 30 years ago,
despeckling of synthetic aperture radar images is still an open issue. A new boost has been …