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Speckle Reduction in Ultrasound Images Using Hybridization of Wavelet-Based Novel Thresholding Approach with Guided Filter

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The research work is aimed to explore and develop some new techniques in the area of speckle reduction. The algorithms are devised and implemented in transform domain for speckle reduction in ultrasound images. The high-quality ultrasound images can improve the accuracy and speed of subsequent image processing tasks and can yield better diagnosis results. In this work, we have proposed a hybrid method to reduce speckle from ultrasound images while maintaining a trade-off between speckle reduction and edge preservation. Extensive work is carried out by taking four different types of images for research which contains synthetic images, simulated images, noise-free ultrasound images, and real ultrasound images. The performance of proposed methods is measured by using different image quality metrics such as PSNR, MSE, COC, SSIM, FSIM, and EPI for all given sets of images except real ultrasound images. The real ultrasound images are compared by using visual comparison and metric SSI because it does not use reference images.

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  1. Global Group of Institutes, Amritsar, India

    Leena Jain

  2. B.B.K D.A.V College for Women, Amritsar, India

    Palwinder Singh

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  1. School of Computing, DIT University, Dehradun, India

    Narendra Kumar

  2. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Celia Shahnaz

  3. Research and Development Unit, UJVN Ltd., Dehradun, India

    Krishna Kumar

  4. College of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Anbar, Ramadi, Iraq

    Mazin Abed Mohammed

  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Netaji Subhash University of Technology (East Campus), New Delhi, India

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Jain, L., Singh, P. (2022). Speckle Reduction in Ultrasound Images Using Hybridization of Wavelet-Based Novel Thresholding Approach with Guided Filter. In: Kumar, N., Shahnaz, C., Kumar, K., Abed Mohammed, M., Raw, R.S. (eds) Advance Concepts of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition. Transactions on Computer Systems and Networks. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9324-3_9

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