Comparative Analysis of Spatial filters for Speckle Reduction in Ultrasound Images

Author

Singh, Mandeep ; Singh, Sukhwinder ; Kansal, Savitha

Author_Institution

EIED, Thapar Univ., Patiala, India

Volume

6

fYear

2009

fDate

March 31 2009-April 2 2009

Firstpage

228

Lastpage

232

Abstract

This paper provides a comparative study of various spatial domain filters for speckle suppression in ultrasound images. Spatial domain filters are easy to implement on real time systems because they work faster than other methods like multi-resolution or wavelets based filters. Different filters have been evaluated experimentally on synthetic and real ultrasound images. Their performance is noted quantitatively using some quality metrics like signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), correlation coefficient (COC), image quality index (QI), structure similarity index (SSI) and edge preserving index (EPI).

Keywords

filtering theory; image denoising; medical image processing; spatial filters; speckle; correlation coefficient; edge preserving index; image quality index; multiresolution filter; real time systems; signal-to-noise ratio; spatial domain filters; speckle suppression; structure similarity index; ultrasound images; wavelets based filters; Computer science; Image analysis; Spatial filters; Speckle; Ultrasonic imaging; Anisotropic Diffusion; Speckle reduction;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science and Information Engineering, 2009 WRI World Congress on

Conference_Location

Los Angeles, CA

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3507-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSIE.2009.868

Filename

5170695