Design of nonlinear filter for echocardiographic images on wavelet-based method

Su Cheol Kang; Seung Hong Hong

doi:10.1117/12.477140

31 July 2002 Design of nonlinear filter for echocardiographic images on wavelet-based method

Su Cheol Kang, Seung Hong Hong

Proceedings Volume 4875, Second International Conference on Image and Graphics; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.477140
Event: Second International Conference on Image and Graphics, 2002, Hefei, China

Abstract

One of the most significant features of diagnostic echocardiographic images is to reduce speckle noise and make better image quality. In this paper we proposed a simple and effective filter design for image denoising and contrast enhancement based on multiscale wavelet denoising method. Wavelet threshold algorithms replace wavelet coefficients with small magnitude by zero and keep or shrink the other coefficients. This is basically a local procedure, since wavelet coefficients characterize the local regularity of a function. After we estimate distribution of noise within echocardiographic image, then apply to fitness Wavelet threshold algorithm. A common way of the estimating the speckle noise level in coherent imaging is to calculate the mean-to-standard-deviation ratio of the pixel intensity, often termed the Equivalent Number of Looks(ENL), over a uniform image area. Unfortunately, we found this measure not very robust mainly because of the difficulty to identify a uniform area in a real image. For this reason, we will only use here the S/MSE ratio and which corresponds to the standard SNR in case of additivie noise. We have simulated some echocardiographic images by specialized hardware for real-time applicati on;processing of a 512*512 images takes about 1 mm. Our experiments show that the optimal threshold level depends on the spectral content of the image. High spectral content tends to over-estimate the noise standard deviation estimation performed at the fmest level ofthe DWT. As a result, a lower threshold parameter is required to get the optimal S/MSE. The standard WCS theory predicts a threshold that depends on the number of signal samples only.

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Su Cheol Kang and Seung Hong Hong "Design of nonlinear filter for echocardiographic images on wavelet-based method", Proc. SPIE 4875, Second International Conference on Image and Graphics, (31 July 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.477140

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Wavelets

Image filtering

Digital filtering

Wavelet transforms

Speckle

Interference (communication)

Ultrasonography

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