%0 Journal Article
%T Comparative Study of Different Denoising Filters for Speckle Noise Reduction in Ultrasonic B-Mode Images
%A Amira A. Mahmoud
%A S. EL Rabaie
%A T. E. Taha
%A O. Zahran
%J International Journal of Image, Graphics and Signal Processing
%D 2013
%I MECS Publisher
%X Image denoising involves processing of the image data to produce a visually high quality image. The denoising algorithms may be classified into two categories, spatial filtering algorithms and transform domain based algorithms. In this paper a comparative study of different denoising filters for speckle noise reduction in ultrasonic b-mode images based on calculating the Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) value as a metric is presented. The quantitative results of comparison are tabulated by calculating the PSNR of the output image.
%K Image enhancement
%K Ultrasonic scan
%K Speckle noise
%K Denoising filters
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