Improvement of Ultrasound Images Using Motion Estimation and Recursive Filtering

Motion Estimation과 Recursive Filtering을 사용한 초음파 동화상의 개선

  • Song, J.S. (Department of Applied Electronics, Korea University) ;
  • Lee, J.K. (Department of Applied Electronics, Korea University) ;
  • Yang, Y.J. (Department of Applied Electronics, Korea University) ;
  • Choi, H.J. (Department of Applied Electronics, Korea University) ;
  • Oh, C.H. (Department of Applied Electronics, Korea University)
  • 송진수 (고려대학교 자연과학대학 응용전자공학과) ;
  • 이종권 (고려대학교 자연과학대학 응용전자공학과) ;
  • 양윤정 (고려대학교 자연과학대학 응용전자공학과) ;
  • 최환준 (고려대학교 자연과학대학 응용전자공학과) ;
  • 오창현 (고려대학교 자연과학대학 응용전자공학과)
  • Published : 1995.05.12

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to improve ultrasound images using motion estimation and recursive filtering. Although averaging without motion correction can make image blurring, the proposed estimation method improves image SNR without motion blurring by recursively averaging images with motion correction. Computer simulation on the proposed method has been performed to improve phantom and ultrasound fish images and the results show the utility of the proposed method.

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