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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
A selective denoising method to remove speckle noise
Alex F. de Araujo & João Manuel R.S. Tavares
Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica e Gestão Industrial, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
Christos E. Constantinou
Department of Urology, School of Medicine Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
ABSTRACT: Speckle noise strongly affects the images acquired by ultrasound scans and reduces the
efficiency of computational methods to extract and understand the features presented in the images. Try-
ing ...