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Breast ultrasound despeckling using anisotropic diffusion guided by texture descriptors

Flores et al., 2014

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4085701358984105042
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Flores W
de Albuquerque Pereira W
Infantosi A
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Ultrasound in medicine & biology

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Breast ultrasound (BUS) is considered the most important adjunct method to mammography for diagnosing cancer. However, this image modality suffers from an intrinsic artifact called speckle noise, which degrades spatial and contrast resolution and obscures the screened …
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