An Implementation of Image Sharpening Based on Morphological Operations for Ubiquitous Echo

Author

Tsubai, Masayoshi ; Mitoda, Naoshi ; Fukuda, Osamu ; Ueno, Naohiro

Author_Institution

On-site Sensing & Diagnosis Res. Lab., Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Sci. & Technol., Saga

fYear

2006

fDate

Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 3 2006

Firstpage

2742

Lastpage

2745

Abstract

Ubiquitous echo is a portable ultrasound imaging equipment. We discuss an image sharpening method based on geometrical information by mathematical morphology with double structuring element (DSE) for on-line processing on ubiquitous echo. The sharpening method improves the contrast of tissue boundaries without speckle emphasis. The computational complexity of the morphological operations is reduced by chain rule of the operations and decomposition of the DSE not to delay refreshing the ultrasound moving image

Keywords

biomedical equipment; biomedical ultrasonics; bone; computational complexity; image enhancement; mathematical morphology; medical image processing; chain rule; computational complexity; double structuring element; geometrical information; human femoral image; image sharpening; mathematical morphology; morphological operations; on-line processing; portable ultrasound imaging equipment; tissue contrast; ubiquitous echo; ultrasound moving image; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Cities and towns; Computational complexity; Delay; Frequency; Medical services; Morphological operations; Noise reduction; Speckle; Ultrasonic imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

New York, NY

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0032-5

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260566

Filename

4462363