PCANet based nonlocal means method for speckle noise removal in ultrasound images.

Speckle reduction remains a critical issue for ultrasound image processing and analysis. The nonlocal means (NLM) filter has recently attached much attention due to its competitive despeckling performance. However, the existing NLM methods usually determine the similarity between two patches by dire...

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Main Authors: Houqiang Yu, Mingyue Ding, Xuming Zhang, Jinbo Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6185735?pdf=render