2D/3D registration of neonatal brain images
WBIR'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Biomedical Image Registration
Image enhancement based on a nonlinear multiscale method
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
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In this paper we focus on the diagnostic relevance of ultrasound (US) speckle suppression by means of advanced image (post)processing. As US speckle (noise) is often the main obstacle for an objective qualitative diagnosis different ways of denoising the US image while preserving the relevant clinical features have been proposed. Despite that speckle suppression has already been proven successful for many quantitative tasks such as, e.g., segmentation and registration, it remains to be shown that the processed images are perceived as of a better diagnostic quality by the medical experts. Here we present the results of a psycho-visual experiment investigating exactly that.