A multiplicative Nakagami speckle reduction algorithm for ultrasound images

• Main Authors: Yu, Chengpu, Zheng, Cishen, Xie, Lihua
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101713; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11139
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Speckle noise of ultrasound images is of multiplicative nature which degrades the image quality in terms of resolution and contrast. While there exist a number of algorithms for reduction of multiplicative Rayleigh distributed random speckle noise, the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) issue of the mu...