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This paper presents an nonlinear algorithm for speckle reduction and contrast enhancement of ultrasound image. Speckle is multiplicative noise and is mainly reason to make ultrasonic image degenerate. We adopt Jain's speckle noise model to carry out our scheme. Shrinkage of wavelet coefficients via soft thresholding within finer levels of scale is carried out on coefficients of logarithmically transformed Ultrasonic image. Enhancement of image features is accomplished via nonlinear stretching followed by hard thresholding of wavelet coefficients within mid-range spatial frequency levels of analysis. A sparially weighted averaging operation is done to smooth wavelet coefficient at first Level in order to avoid effect of pulse energy. We show experimentally that this technique produced superior results when compared to results obtained from existing denoising methods alone. A study suggests that such, denoising and enhancement may improve the overall consistency of expert.
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2002 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SIGNAL PROCESSING PROCEEDINGS, VOLS I AND II
Year: 2002
Page: 1500-1503
Language: English
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SCOPUS Cited Count: 13
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