Speckle noise reduction of ultrasound images using Extra-Energy Reduction function

摘要

A new effective method for speckle noise reduction in ultrasound imaging is introduced in this paper. The proposed method is based on Extra-Energy Reduction (EER) function in the vector field, which is addressed by vector triangular formula. It is reasonable to decide that the calculated the energy of a pixel by vector triangular formula is less than the usual absolute distance energy of the same pixel then the pixel must be noisy. The noisy pixel with higher energy is moved to equilibrium situation by subtracting the extra energy for any type of functional operation (e.g. image segmentation, pattern recognition, objects classification). The implemented method reduces extra-energy from an image and provides a proper gray level distribution into the entire image. The technique demonstrates very impressive noise suppression without loss of important information compared to some existing state-of-the-art speckle denoising methods.