• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
• /
• 제9권6호
• /
• pp.155-161
• /
• 2009

SAR영상의 가장 큰 문제점은 경계선 부근에서 스패클(Speckle)잡음을 어떻게 줄이느냐 하는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 제안한 방법을 이용하여 경계선을 보존할 수 있는 효과적인 필터를 개발하고자 한다. 스패클 잡음을 줄이면서 에지 영역에 대한 블러링 없는 영상을 추출하기 위하여 웨이브렛 기반의 sigma 필터를 적용하였다. 실험 결과 에지정보에 대한 블러링을 줄인 출력 영상을 구성하였다. 제안한 방법을 미디언 필터와 비교한 결과, 스패클 잡음을 효과적으로 제거한 우수한 영상을 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국광학회지
• /
• 제5권2호
• /
• pp.217-224
• /
• 1994

반점 간섭무늬 위상단면도의 잡음을 제거하기 위해 위상이동 convolution과 2-bit 양자화 스무딩 필터를 조합하였다. 위상이동 convoltion처리로 톱니파 형태를 갖는 반점 간섭무늬 위상단면도에서 2.pi. jump 양단의 edge 성분을 완벽하게 유지하면서 스무딩 처리를 할 수 있었다. 2-bit 양자화 스무딩 필터는 반점 간섭무늬 위상단면도의 스무딩 처리를 하는데 있어서 average, low-pass 필터 및 median 필터 보다 처리속도가 빠르고 S/N비 특성이 우수하였다. 잡음을 제거한 반점 위상단면도를 path dependent unwrapping 알고리즘을 적용하여 위상의 2.pi. 불연속성을 해소하고 펼쳐 보았다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
• /
• 제37권4호
• /
• pp.140-146
• /
• 2016

The ultrasound imaging in medical diagnosis has become a popular modality because of its safe, noninvasive, portable, relatively inexpensive, and provides a real-time image formation. However, usefulness of ultrasound imaging is at times limited due to the presence of signal-dependent noise like as speckle. Therefore, noise reduction is very important, as various types of noise generated limits the effectiveness of medical image diagnosis. This paper introduces a speckle noise reduce algorithm using total variation denoising (TVD) in Laplacian pyramid. With this method, speckle is removed by TVD of bandpass ultrasound images in Laplacian pyramid domain. For TVD in each pyramid layer, a ${\lambda}$ is selected by trial-and-error method. The visual comparison of despeckled 'in vivo' ultrasound images from pancreas shows that the proposed method could effectively preserve edges and detailed structures while thoroughly suppressing speckle. For a Simulated B-mode image, contrast-to-noise-ratio (CNR) and signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) were obtained like 4.65 dB and 14.11 dB, respectively. The results show that the proposed method can conduct better than some of the existing methods in terms of the CNR and the SNR.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
• /
• 제46권6호
• /
• pp.475-484
• /
• 2023

This study aimed to compare filters for reducing speckle noise in ultrasound images using clinical liver images. We acquired the clinical liver ultrasound images, and noisy images were obtained by adding 0.01, 0.05, 0.10, and 0.50 intensity levels of speckle noise to the liver images. The Wiener filter, median modified Wiener filter, gamma filter, and Lee filter were designed for the noisy images by setting window sizes at 3×3, 5×5, and 7×7. The coefficient of variation (COV) and contrast to noise ratio (CNR) were calculated to evaluate noise reduction and various filters. Moreover, the filter with the highest image quality was selected and quantitatively compared to a noisy image. As a result, COV and CNR showed the noise improved result when the Lee filter was applied. Furthermore, the Lee filter image with a window size of 7×7 was noted to possess approximately a minimum of 1.28 to a maximum of 3.38 times better COV and a minimum of 2.18 to a maximum of 5.50 times better CNR than the noisy image. In conclusion, we confirmed that the Lee filter was effective in reducing speckle noise and proved that an appropriate window size needs to be set considering blurring.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 대한의용생체공학회 1990년도 추계학술대회
• /
• pp.5-10
• /
• 1990

The object detection capabilities of ultrasonic imaging systems are limited by the ability of the detection process to distinguish the resolved object signals from backscattered speckle noise. It has been shown that the phase component of the Fourier transform of the speckle noise is random. Based on this property. we propose a new algorithm for distinguishing between speckle and specular targets. The proposed algorithm is implemented by taking the Fourier transform of the received signal, low-pass filtering the phase, and taking the inverse Fourier transform of the filtered phase to enhance specular reflectors and reduce speckle in the image. Simulations and experiments using phantoms confirm the algorithm yielding significant reduction of speckle noise.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
• /
• 제12권3호
• /
• pp.123-130
• /
• 2007

SAR 영상은 스펙클 잡음의 승법(multiplicative) 특성으로 인하여 영상 분석하는데 많은 어려움이 있다. 본 논문에서는 웨이블렛 변환을 사용하여 SAR 영상의 스펙클 잡음을 제거하고자 한다. 이를 위해 잡음영상에 대해 로그를 취해 얻은 가법(additive) 잡음 영상에서 웨이블렛 분해 한 후 잡음 성분을 제거하고 원영상을 얻기 위해 지수형태를 취한다. 웨이블렛 변환에서 임계치 처리는 소프트 임계법을 사용하고 VisuShrink, SureShrink, BayesShrink 그리고 수정된 BayesShrink 방법으로 임계값을 선택한다. 영상실험을 통하여 이들 임계값 선택 방법들 간의 비교는 수정된 BayesShrink 방법이 다른 방법들보다 좋은 영상의 질을 유지하고 있으며 또한 PSNR 면에서 좋은 잡음제거 성능을 갖고 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
• /
• 제7권2호
• /
• pp.231-234
• /
• 2009

Speckle noise reduction for power Doppler ventricle coherent image for restoration and enhancement using Fast Wavelet Transform with multi-thresholding and multi-filtering on the each subbands is presented. Fast Wavelet Transform divides into low frequency component image to high frequency component image to be multi-resolved. Speckle noise is located on high frequency component in multi-resolution image mainly. A Doppler ventricle image is transformed and inversed with separated threshold function and filtering from low to high resolved images for restoration to utilize visualization for ventricle diagnosis. The experimental result shows that the proposed method has better performance in comparison with the conventional method.

• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국광학회 2009년도 창립 20주년기념 특별학술발표회
• /
• pp.329-330
• /
• 2009

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
• /
• 제12권3호
• /
• pp.126-130
• /
• 2008

We propose and experimentally demonstrate an effective method to reduce near-field speckle noise at the output of a 50 ${\mu}m$ graded index multimode fiber using a short cylindrical piezoelectric transducer(PZT) vibrating in the radial direction. The fiber was coiled as tightly as possible around the mandrel of the PZT and a periodic stretching effect was caused by the radial oscillations of the actuator. The output of the optical fiber using the He-Ne laser source was intensively observed by a CCD camera. By counting all the pixels corresponding to relative intensity graded into 256 levels in the selected area and by calculating standard deviation and mean value of the intensity, we could measure the speckle contrast and vibration effect quantitatively with reduction ratio of pixels and line profile of the illuminated region. It was clearly observed that the characteristics of the speckle pattern in the vibration-on state were significantly improved over that of the vibration-off state due to time-averaged smoothing.

• 대한한의진단학회지
• /
• 제20권1호
• /
• pp.37-44
• /
• 2016

Ultrasonic imaging is the most widely modality among modern imaging device for medical diagnosis. Nevertheless, medical ultrasound images suffer from speckle noise and low contrast. In this paper, we propose probabilistic edge map for ultrasound image edge enhancement using automatic alien algorithm. The proposed method used applied speckle reduced ultrasound imaging for edge improvement using sequentially acquired ultrasound imaging. To evaluate the performance of method, the similarity between the reference and edge enhanced image was measured by quantity analysis. The experimental results show that the proposed method considerably improves the image quality with region edge enhancement.