Ultrasound image quality evaluation

Author

Loizou, C. ; Pattichis, C.S. ; Istepanian, R. ; Pantziaris, M. ; Kyriakou, E. ; Tyllis, T. ; Nicolaides, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Limassol, Cyprus

fYear

2003

fDate

24-26 April 2003

Firstpage

138

Lastpage

141

Abstract

The objective of this work was to evaluate the image quality of two different ultrasound image scanners before and after de-speckle filtering. The evaluation was made by statistical and texture analysis, as well as by optical perception by two vascular experts on 20 ultrasound images of carotid artery. The de-speckled filters used were based on: (i) local statistics, (ii) homogeneous mask area filters, and (iii) geometric filtering. Results showed that image quality was improved after de-speckle filtering for both scanners.

Keywords

acoustic noise; biomedical MRI; biomedical ultrasonics; blood vessels; entropy; image texture; medical image processing; speckle; statistical analysis; carotid artery; de-speckle filtering; geometric filtering; homogeneous mask area filters; image quality; local statistics; optical perception; statistical analysis; texture analysis; ultrasound image quality evaluation; ultrasound image scanners; vascular experts; Electronic mail; Filtering; Image analysis; Image quality; Image texture analysis; Lesions; Optical filters; Speckle; Statistics; Ultrasonic imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, 2003. 4th International IEEE EMBS Special Topic Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7667-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITAB.2003.1222492

Filename

1222492