Performance Analysis of Filters for Speckle Reduction in Medical Ultrasound Images

Abstract

Speckle is a random multiplicative noise which obscures the perception and extraction of fine details in ultrasound image and despeckling is necessary to improve the visual quality for better diagnoses. Preliminary treatment of images before segmentation and classification includes despeckling as one of the important steps. This paper aims at introducing the possible range of image speckle corrections available.

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