Performance Comparison of Various Filters on Despeckling of Medical Ultrasound Imaging

Ultrasound Imaging plays vital role in diagnoses a disease. US image suffers from speckle noise. Despeckling is an important task for accurate diagnosis. In this paper experiment has been performed to measure the effectiveness of various filters available for despeckling. Results are compared qualitatively and quantitatively the Peak Signal to Noise Ratio and SSIM parameters are used to quantify the results. On basis of these parameters the performance of various filters are shown.

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