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Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing IV – João Tavares & Natal Jorge (eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00081-0
Speckle ultrasound image filtering: Performance analysis
and comparison
R. Rosa & F.C. Monteiro
Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal
ABSTRACT: This paper compiles and compares well-known techniques mostly used in the smoothing
or suppression of speckle noise in ultrasound images. A comparison of the methods studied is done based
on an experiment, using quality metrics, texture analysisand interpretation of row profiles to evaluate
their performance and show the benefits each one can contribute ...