International Journal of Engineering and Manufacturing (IJEM)
IJEM Vol. 1, No. 3, 5 Jun. 2011
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Texture based Anisotropic Diffusion for Real Ultrasound Image Despeckling
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Author(s)
Jie Huang
1,*
Xiaoping Yang
1
Index Terms
Real ultrasound image, anisotropic diffusion, texture, despeckling
Abstract
This paper presents a new texture based anisotropic diffusion method for real ultrasound image despeckling. Texture information is obtained by a real ultrasound image model. Unlike traditional anisotropic diffusion methods usually taking image gradient as a diffusion index, we take the image texture as a new diffusion index. The results comparing our new method with others on both simulated image and real ultrasound images are reported, and our method shows the superiority in keeping important features of real ultrasound images.
Cite This Paper
Jie Huang,Xiaoping Yang,"Texture based Anisotropic Diffusion for Real Ultrasound Image Despeckling", IJEM, vol.1, no.3, pp.42-49, 2011. DOI: 10.5815/ijem.2011.03.07
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