A diffusion stick method for speckle suppression in ultrasonic images

Authors:
Chang-Yan Xiao;Zhang Su;Ya-zhu Chen
Affiliations:
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Instrument Institute, Shanghai JiaoTong University, 1954 HuaShan Road, Shanghai 20030, China;Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Instrument Institute, Shanghai JiaoTong University, 1954 HuaShan Road, Shanghai 20030, China;Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Instrument Institute, Shanghai JiaoTong University, 1954 HuaShan Road, Shanghai 20030, China
Venue:
Pattern Recognition Letters
Year:
2004

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Abstract

This paper presents a diffusion stick method for speckle suppression in ultrasonic images. An asymmetric stick filter kernel is firstly defined by decomposing the rectangle neighborhood into line segments of variable orientations. Then, the weighted sum of averages along each stick is used to produce the filtered images. Implemented in an iteration scheme, our method works as a pseudo-diffusion process, where the diffusivity is controlled by a normalized variance function. Experiments of synthetic and real images show that the diffusion stick technique performs effectively in suppressing speckle noise, preserving resolvable structures and enhancing linear features.