Smoothing of ultrasound images with the p-lag FIR structures

  • Authors:
  • L. J. Morales-Mendoza;Y. S. Shmaliy;R. F. Vázquez-Bautista;O. G. Ibarra-Manzano

  • Affiliations:
  • FIEC, Veracruz University, Poza Rica, Ver., México;DICIS, Guanajuato University, Salamanca, Gto., México;FIEC, Veracruz University, Poza Rica, Ver., México;DICIS, Guanajuato University, Salamanca, Gto., México

  • Venue:
  • TELE-INFO'11/MINO'11/SIP'11 Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS international conference on Telecommunications and informatics and microelectronics, nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, and WSEAS international conference on Signal processing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

An analysis is given of the specific points of the noise power gain of the p-lag median hybrid FIR filters in applications to ultrasound image processing. An important feature of such a gain is that, at some cross points, it converges to the reduced degree one. The effect of smoothing is evaluated in terms of the signal-to-noise ratio and root mean square error metrics. We show that image enhancing has the best appearance if the FIR smoother degree and p are both optimized.