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Title: De-noising of ultrasound image using Bayesian approached heavy-tailed Cauchy distribution
Authors: Sahu, Sima
Singh, Harsh Vikram
Kumar, Basant
Singh, Amit Kumar
Keywords: Speckle noise
Cauchy prior
MAP estimator
Issue Date: 2017
Publisher: Jaypee University of Information Technology, Solan, H.P.
Abstract: Medical ultrasound images are used in clinical diagnosis and generally degraded by speckle noise. This makes difficulty in automatic interpretation of diseases in ultrasound images. This paper presents a speckle removal algorithm by modeling the wavelet coefficients. A Bayesian approach is implemented to find the noise free coefficients. Cauchy prior and Gaussian Probability Density Function (PDF) are used to model the true wavelet coefficients and noisy coefficients respectively. A Maximum a Posteriori (MAP) estimator is used to estimate the noise free wavelet coefficients. A Median Absolute Deviation (MAD) estimator is used to find the variance of affected wavelet coefficients in finest scale. The proposed method is compared with existing denoising methods. The experimental results show that the method offer up to 21.48% enhancement in Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), 1.82% enhancement in Structural Similarity Index (SSIM), 1% enhancement in Correlation coefficient (ρ) and 7.68%enhancement in Edge Preserving Index (EPI) than best existing wavelet modeling method. The results indicate that the proposed method outperforms over existing methods, both in noise reduction and edge preservation.
URI: http://ir.juit.ac.in:8080/jspui/jspui/handle/123456789/8372
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