Noise reduction and gestational age estimation for ultrasound fetuses images

Other Title(s)

الحد من الضوضاء و تقدير عمر الأجنة لصور الموجات فوق الصوتية

Joint Authors

Husayn, Ahlam Ali
Khanjar, Ibtisam Fadil

Source

Iraqi Journal of Science

Issue

Vol. 57, Issue 4B (31 Dec. 2016), pp.2780-2789, 10 p.

Publisher

University of Baghdad College of Science

Publication Date

2016-12-31

Country of Publication

Iraq

No. of Pages

10

Main Subjects

Medicine
Information Technology and Computer Science

Topics

Abstract EN

Ultrasound imaging is often preferred over other medical imaging modalities because it is non-invasive, non-ionizing, and low-cost.

However, the main weakness of medical ultrasound image is the poor quality of images, due to presence of speckle noise and blurring.

Speckle is characteristic phenomenon in ultrasound images, which can be described as random multiplicative noise that occurrence is often undesirable, since it affects the tasks of human interpretation and diagnosis.

Blurring is a form of bandwidth reduction of an ideal image owing to the imperfect image formation process.

Image denoising involves processing of the image data to produce a visually high quality image.

The denoising algorithms may be classified into two categories, spatial filtering algorithms and transform domain based algorithms.

In this work three adaptive filters are used to denoising speckle noise in ultrasonic (B-mode) images based on calculating the Mean Square Error (MSE) and Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) value as a metric is presented, then estimated the gestation age from filtered images using MATLAB program, as well as using Wiener filter to restore the degradation images.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Khanjar, Ibtisam Fadil& Husayn, Ahlam Ali. 2016. Noise reduction and gestational age estimation for ultrasound fetuses images. Iraqi Journal of Science،Vol. 57, no. 4B, pp.2780-2789.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-748233

Modern Language Association (MLA)

Khanjar, Ibtisam Fadil& Husayn, Ahlam Ali. Noise reduction and gestational age estimation for ultrasound fetuses images. Iraqi Journal of Science Vol. 57, no. 4B (2016), pp.2780-2789.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-748233

American Medical Association (AMA)

Khanjar, Ibtisam Fadil& Husayn, Ahlam Ali. Noise reduction and gestational age estimation for ultrasound fetuses images. Iraqi Journal of Science. 2016. Vol. 57, no. 4B, pp.2780-2789.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-748233

Data Type

Journal Articles

Language

English

Notes

Includes bibliographical references : p. 2789

Record ID

BIM-748233