Complex wavelet diffusion for enhancing ultrasound images of the laminar bone

Sima Sobhiyeh; Amir Hossein Rezaie; Hamid Reza Haghighatkhah

doi:10.1117/1.JEI.23.5.053001

3 September 2014 Complex wavelet diffusion for enhancing ultrasound images of the laminar bone

Sima Sobhiyeh, Amir Hossein Rezaie, Hamid Reza Haghighatkhah

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Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 23, Issue 5, 053001 (September 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.23.5.053001

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to remove speckle noise and enhance the laminar bone structure in ultrasound images in order to aid the anesthesiologist during an epidural anesthesia needle insertion. In this regard, a direction and scale sensitive anisotropic diffusion (AD) algorithm called the complex wavelet diffusion algorithm is proposed. The proposed algorithm is tested on synthetic and real ultrasound images of the laminar bone and the results are compared with the speckle-reducing AD method. Results indicate that the proposed method can better highlight the diagonal-shaped laminar bones while removing speckle noise. Furthermore, the proposed despeckling algorithm is very fast providing the anesthesiologist with real-time information while an epidural injection is performed.

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Sima Sobhiyeh, Amir Hossein Rezaie, and Hamid Reza Haghighatkhah "Complex wavelet diffusion for enhancing ultrasound images of the laminar bone," Journal of Electronic Imaging 23(5), 053001 (3 September 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.23.5.053001

Published: 3 September 2014

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