Spatio-temporal speckle reduction in ultrasound sequences

Noura Azzabou1, Nikos Paragios

  • 1Laboratoire MAS Ecole Centrale de Paris, France. n.azzabou@institut-myologie.org

Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention : MICCAI ... International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention
|November 5, 2008
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Summary

This study presents a novel spatio-temporal de-noising method for ultrasound images to reduce speckle noise. The new approach utilizes a variational formulation with a non-parametric image model and a Rayleigh distribution-adapted data term.