基于自适应邻域的超声图像加权中值滤波

提出了一种自适应邻域中值滤波算法，用于医学超声内窥镜图像的噪声滤除。该方法以图像象素邻域的灰度方差为阈值，进行保持与修复窗口的自适应改变，在有效抑制Speckle噪声的同时，较好保留了图像的细节信息。对本算法与Loupas提出的加权中值滤波算法进行了比较，指出本算法在一定程度上克服了加权中值滤波器的不足并保留了它的优点，对超声内窥镜图像的滤噪有较好的效果。     

基于对称区域生长算法的超声医学图像分割方法

提出了一种基于对称区域生长算法的超声医学图像的分割方法。该方法分为三步。首先,通过采用自适应加权中值滤波抑制超声医学图像本身固有的Speckle噪声,然后从图像的第一行开始扫描整个图像,并应用生长准则进行区域的生长与合并,生长完成之后应用种子准则标定感兴趣区域,从而得到最后的分割结果。通过图像的分割实验确定了一套对于超声医学图像适用的生长和合并准则。对心脏B型超声医学图像分割的实验结果显示,该方法具有良好的性能。     

超声医学图像滤波算法研究进展

主要讨论超声医学图像滤波算法的研究现状,几种主要的滤波方法（多方位滤波方法、自适应权值调节滤波方法、自适应窗口选取滤波方法、两步法等）面临的问题及发展的方向。作者通过实践,将有关算法应用于超声医学图像的处理,给出了处理结果,进行了几种算法的比较分析。     

超声医学图像非线性滤波算法研究进展

超声医学成像方法具有实时、无创、方便等优点，在临床上得到了广泛的应用。但由于超声医学成像机制的限制，超声医学图像质量不高。对图像进行滤波就是为了提高人眼和计算机对图像细节的识别能力。本研究讨论了应用于去除超声医学图像斑点噪声的非线性滤波算法的研究现状及其特点，重点介绍了基于中值滤波、小波变换、扩散方程的滤波方法，并把相关算法应用于超声医学图像的处理，直观地比较了各种滤波器的性能。最后展望了超声医学图像非线性滤波算法的发展方向。     

超声医学图像滤波和对比度增强新方法

较低的对比度和独有的speckle噪声是影响超声医学图像质量的主要原因,本研究利用各向异性扩散滤波,在去除图像中大量噪声的同时,计算滤波过程中图像信息的丢失,从而得到对比度增强模型中的对比度函数,并利用对比度增强模型达到图像对比度增强的目的。实验结果表明,与滤波后的直方图均衡化后结果相比,不仅能够有效地去除图像中的噪声,也能明显提高图像对比度。因此,本文方法是提高超声医学图像质量的一种有效途径。     

基于简化的PCNN在超声乳腺癌图像去噪方面的应用

针对乳腺癌超声图像中斑点对诊断的影响,提出一种基于简化的脉冲耦合神经网络(simplified pulse-coupled neuralNetwork,SPCNN)的去噪新方法,并将此方法应用于乳腺癌超声图像滤波。首先利用简化的PCNN定位极端脉冲噪声点并利用中值滤波滤除椒盐噪声,然后利用PCNN赋时矩阵采用分类滤波自适应调节灰度值滤除高斯噪声。用实验图像验证了方法的有效性,然后将此方法应用于乳腺癌的超声图像中进行滤波,实验结果证实该方法对混合噪声在滤波效果和保护细节方面具有优势,对乳腺癌的超声图像能较好地滤除噪声,同时保证了细节,结合医学诊断证实了该方法的有效性。     

基于比率距离的自适应超声图像去噪方法

针对超声图像噪声的瑞利分布特性,使用一种新的自适应超声图像去噪方法,改进固定窗口包含边缘时无法做到沿边缘方向滤波的不足。采用可自由伸缩的自适应滤波窗口,首先针对瑞利分布的噪声引入比率距离,得到超声图像像素间的相似度距离,然后考虑像素的邻域图像块均值,解决相似度距离之间比较的问题,最后像素根据新的相似度距离进行八方向伸展,得到不规则形状的滤波窗口进行去噪。用仿真超声图像和临床超声图像进行实验,图像评价指标结果表明该算法优于经典算法,更适用于去除超声图像的斑点噪声,在去除噪声的同时能够较好地保留细节边缘。     

一种改进的灰度医学图像平滑滤波算法

提出了一种改进的灰度医学图像平滑滤波算法,此算法既有效地滤除了医学图像中的噪声,又能很好的保持了图像的边缘及细节,也克服了作者先前所提算法滤波后图像边缘出现毛刺的缺点。     

基于改进型组织特异纹理滤波器的乳腺肿瘤超声图像处理

基于乳腺超声图像的多参数纹理分类实验,改进了Gjenna Stippel等的自适应纹理滤波器,通过引入模糊函数、增加重叠区域和迭代次数的措施,在减少图像噪声的同时,增强肿瘤与周围正常组织的视觉差别.量化比较乳腺超声图像经该滤波算法和几种常用滤波算法处理前后的的统计特征参量和肿瘤边缘检测的精确率,验证了该算法的有效性和优越性.     

基于树状小波的超声医学图像阈值函数降噪

针对超声医学图像中存在特有的斑点噪声,利用树状小波分解比传统小波分解精度高的特点,将超声医学图像进行树状小波分解,然后分别采用硬阈值、软阈值和半软阈值函数三种方法进行降噪处理.结果表明半软阈值函数方法是较优阈值函数方法,可以有效地降低原图像的斑点噪声并保留图像细节.     

基于活动轮廓模型的超声心脏图像轮廓的自动检测

轮廓的提取是超声医图像学多维重建中最困难的问题之一,本文提出了一种超声心脏图像轮廓的自动检测方法,首先,根据超声图像的特点,对超声图像进行自适应加强中值滤波以消除斑点噪声,然后利用数学形态学的方法提取出心脏的初始轮廓。最后,运用活动轮廓模型,对初始轮廓进行逼近,得到精确的心脏轮廓,实验结果显示了方法的有效性,本方法在心脏超声图像的多维重建过程中,对序列断层图像心脏轮廓的提取有实际应用价值。     

医学超声图象的处理与拼接

医学超声图象在临床上得到了广泛的应用，但由于超声图象存在着动态范围小，对比度差，而且噪声大和观察范围有限等缺点，影响了超声图象的临床诊断效果。本文提出了Ｂ超图象的自动匹配与拼接方法，实现了表现更大观察范围的Ｂ超图象，从而弥补了手工拼接中的精度低，误差大的缺陷。为提高图象的匹配与拼接精度，文中还讨论了图象的噪声抑制与灰度增强处理方法，提高了Ｂ超图象的再现质量     

Speckle reduction in ultrasonic images through a maximum likelihood based adaptive filter

Speckle poses serious problems in the interpretation of ultrasound images. It reduces contrast and resolution, making it difficult to identify the presence of abnormalities in B mode images. Using a recently proposed compound probability density function (pdf) for the statistics of the backscattered ultrasonic signals, an adaptive filter for speckle reduction is implemented and tested on B mode images of a tissue mimicking phantom. Results suggest that the adaptive filter based on a maximum likelihood approach improves the ability to classify targets in images while retaining the details in the original unprocessed image.     

Speckle reduction in ultrasound medical images using adaptive filter based on second order statistics

This article discusses an adaptive filtering technique for reducing speckle using second order statistics of the speckle pattern in ultrasound medical images. Several region-based adaptive filter techniques have been developed for speckle noise suppression, but there are no specific criteria for selecting the region growing size in the post processing of the filter. The size appropriate for one local region may not be appropriate for other regions. Selection of the correct region size involves a trade-off between speckle reduction and edge preservation. Generally, a large region size is used to smooth speckle and a small size to preserve the edges into an image. In this paper, a smoothing procedure combines the first order statistics of speckle for the homogeneity test and second order statistics for selection of filters and desired region growth. Grey level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) is calculated for every region during the region contraction and region growing for second order statistics. Further, these GLCM features determine the appropriate filter for the region smoothing. The performance of this approach is compared with the aggressive region-growing filter (ARGF) using edge preservation and speckle reduction tests. The processed image results show that the proposed method effectively reduces speckle noise and preserves edge details.     

Speckle reduction in ultrasound medical images using adaptive filter based on second order statistics

This article discusses an adaptive filtering technique for reducing speckle using second order statistics of the speckle pattern in ultrasound medical images. Several region-based adaptive filter techniques have been developed for speckle noise suppression, but there are no specific criteria for selecting the region growing size in the post processing of the filter. The size appropriate for one local region may not be appropriate for other regions. Selection of the correct region size involves a trade-off between speckle reduction and edge preservation. Generally, a large region size is used to smooth speckle and a small size to preserve the edges into an image. In this paper, a smoothing procedure combines the first order statistics of speckle for the homogeneity test and second order statistics for selection of filters and desired region growth. Grey level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) is calculated for every region during the region contraction and region growing for second order statistics. Further, these GLCM features determine the appropriate filter for the region smoothing. The performance of this approach is compared with the aggressive region-growing filter (ARGF) using edge preservation and speckle reduction tests. The processed image results show that the proposed method effectively reduces speckle noise and preserves edge details.     

一种新的超声图像斑点噪声抑制方法

斑点噪声是超声图像中固有的噪声。现有的用于斑点噪声抑制的自适应滤波方法,小波软阈值方法及小波域内细节抛弃法在去除噪声的同时,不同程度地丢失了一些图像细节。针对这一问题。本文提出了一种新的结合自适应中值滤波和小波软阈值处理的超声图像斑点噪声抑制方法。对计算机仿真图像及超声图像进行处理的结果表明,本文提出的新方法在有效去除斑点噪声的同时,很好地保留了图像的细节,优于上述的其他方法。     

Robust non-homomorphic approach for speckle reduction in medical ultrasound images

Most existing wavelet-based image denoising techniques are developed for additive white Gaussian noise. In applications to speckle reduction in medical ultrasound (US) images, the traditional approach is first to perform the logarithmic transform (homomorphic processing) to convert the multiplicative speckle noise model to an additive one, and then the wavelet filtering is performed on the log-transformed image, followed by an exponential operation. However, this non-linear operation leads to biased estimation of the signal and increases the computational complexity of the filtering method. To overcome these drawbacks, an efficient, non-homomorphic technique for speckle reduction in medical US images is proposed. The method relies on the true characterisation of the marginal statistics of the signal and speckle wavelet coefficients. The speckle component was modelled using the generalised Nakagami distribution, which is versatile enough to model the speckle statistics under various scattering conditions of interest in medical US images. By combining this speckle model with the generalised Gaussian signal first, the Bayesian shrinkage functions were derived using the maximum a posteriori (MAP) criterion. The resulting Bayesian processor used the local image statistics to achieve soft-adaptation from homogeneous to highly heterogeneous areas. Finally, the results showed that the proposed method, named GNDShrink, yielded a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) gain of 0.42 dB over the best state-of-the-art despeckling method reported in the literature, 1.73 dB over the Lee filter and 1.31 dB over the Kaun filter at an input SNR of 12.0 dB, when tested on a US image. Further, the visual comparison of despeckled US images indicated that the new method suppressed the speckle noise well, while preserving the texture and organ surfaces.