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Ultrasound speckle reduction by a SUSAN-controlled anisotropic diffusion method

Yu et al., 2010

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596214919003968816
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Yu J
Tan J
Wang Y
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Pattern recognition

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An ultrasound speckle reduction method is proposed in this paper. The filter, which enhances the power of anisotropic diffusion with the Smallest Univalue Segment Assimilating Nucleus (SUSAN) edge detector, is referred to as the SUSAN-controlled …
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