Speckle reduction and structure enhancement by multichannel median boosted anisotropic diffusion

DOI10.1155/S1110865704402091MaRDI QIDQ2570262zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Zhi Yang, Martin Fox

Publication date 28 October 2005

Published in EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1155/S1110865704402091

zbMATH Keywords

anisotropic diffusionimage decimationmedian filterspeckle noise

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Image processing (compression, reconstruction, etc.) in information and communication theory (94A08)

Review text

Summary: We propose a new approach to reduce speckle noise and enhance structures in speckle-corrupted images. It utilizes a median-anisotropic diffusion compound scheme. The median-filter-based reaction term acts as a guided energy source to boost the structures in the image being processed. In addition, it regularizes the diffusion equation to ensure the existence and uniqueness of a solution. We also introduce a decimation and back reconstruction scheme to further enhance the processing result. Before the iteration of the diffusion process, the image is decimated and a subpixel shifted image set is formed. This allows a multichannel parallel diffusion iteration, and more importantly, the speckle noise is broken into impulsive or salt-pepper noise, which is easy to remove by median filtering. The advantage of the proposed technique is clear when it is compared to other diffusion algorithms and the well-known adaptive weighted median filtering (AWMF) scheme in both simulation and real medical ultrasound images.

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