Nonlinear diffusion in Laplacian pyramid domain for ultrasonic speckle reduction

• Main Authors: Zhang, Fan, Yoo, Yang Mo, Koh, Liang Mong, Kim, Yong Min
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Electronic systems::Signal processing
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/92050; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6337
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A new speckle reduction method, i.e., Laplacian pyramid-based nonlinear diffusion (LPND), is proposed for medical ultrasound imaging. With this method, speckle is removed by nonlinear diffusion filtering of...