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This paper presents a new method for speckle noise reduction in medical ultrasound images. It is based on the statistical description of the envelope of ultrasound signal by the virtue of the Nakagami-m distribution. Parameter of this distribution is used to adjust an adaptive filter.
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Kolář, R., Jan, J. (2005). Tissue Models and Speckle Reduction in Medical Ultrasound Images. In: Kalviainen, H., Parkkinen, J., Kaarna, A. (eds) Image Analysis. SCIA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3540. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11499145_103
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