Computer and Machine Vision: Theory, Algorithms, Practicalities (previously entitled
Machine Vision) clearly and systematically presents the basic methodology of computer and …

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 …

One of the most promising applications of 3-D ultrasound lies in the visualization and
volume estimation of internal 3-D structures. Unfortunately, the quality of the ultrasound data …

Speckle noise is an inherent nature of ultrasound images, which may have negative effect
on image interpretation and diagnostic tasks. In this paper, we propose several multiscale …

When performing block-matching based motion estimation with the ML estimator, one would
try to match blocks from the two images, within a predefined search area. The estimated …

The authors present a statistical approach to speckle reduction in medical ultrasound B-scan
images based on maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation in the wavelet domain. In this …

One of the key additions to clinical ultrasound (US) systems during the last decade was the
incorporation of three-dimensional (3-D) imaging as a native mode. Compared to previous …

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has shown great promise for non-invasive and contact-
less imaging of subsurface soft tissues. However, the problem of low image contrast caused …

Describes a new fully motion-adaptive spatio-temporal filtering technique to reduce the
speckle in ultrasound images. The advantages of this approach are demonstrated in …

If a two-dimensional image is simplified by repeatedly replacing its values with the mean in
an infinitesimal neighbourhood, it evolves according to the diffusion equation L t= Lxx+ Lyy …