Amira A. Mahmoud; S. EL Rabaie; T. E. Taha; O. Zahran; F. E. Abd El-Samie; W. Al-Nauimy

Comparative Study of Different Denoising Filters for Speckle Noise Reduction in Ultrasonic B-Mode Images

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Author(s)

Amira A. Mahmoud ^1,* S. EL Rabaie ¹ T. E. Taha ¹ O. Zahran ¹ F. E. Abd El-Samie ¹ W. Al-Nauimy ¹

1. Department of Electronics and Electrical Communications, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, 32952, Menouf, Egypt.

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2013.02.01

Received: 2 Nov. 2012 / Revised: 30 Nov. 2012 / Accepted: 7 Jan. 2013 / Published: 8 Feb. 2013

Index Terms

Image enhancement, Ultrasonic scan, Speckle noise, Denoising filters

Abstract

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.

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Amira A. Mahmoud, S. EL Rabaie, T. E. Taha, O. Zahran, F. E. Abd El-Samie, W. Al-Nauimy,"Comparative Study of Different Denoising Filters for Speckle Noise Reduction in Ultrasonic B-Mode Images", IJIGSP, vol.5, no.2, pp.1-8, 2013. DOI: 10.5815/ijigsp.2013.02.01

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