The Journal of the Society of Korean Medicine Diagnostics (대한한의진단학회지)

The Society of Korean Mecicine Diagnostics (대한한의진단학회)
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A method for ultrasound image edge enhancement by using Probabilistic edge map

초음파 진단영상 대조도 개선을 위한 확률 경계 맵을 이용한 연구

  • Choi, Woo-hyuk (Biomedical engineering Lab, Dongguk University) ;
  • Park, Won-hwan (Department of Diagnostic, College of Korean Medicine, Dongguk University) ;
  • Park, Sungyun (Department of Diagnostic, College of Korean Medicine, Dongguk University)
  • 최우혁 (동국대학교 의료융합연구실) ;
  • 박원환 (동국대학교 한의과대학 진단학교실) ;
  • 박성윤 (동국대학교 한의과대학 진단학교실)
  • Received : 2016.05.31
  • Accepted : 2016.06.30
  • Published : 2016.06.30
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Abstract

Ultrasonic imaging is the most widely modality among modern imaging device for medical diagnosis. Nevertheless, medical ultrasound images suffer from speckle noise and low contrast. In this paper, we propose probabilistic edge map for ultrasound image edge enhancement using automatic alien algorithm. The proposed method used applied speckle reduced ultrasound imaging for edge improvement using sequentially acquired ultrasound imaging. To evaluate the performance of method, the similarity between the reference and edge enhanced image was measured by quantity analysis. The experimental results show that the proposed method considerably improves the image quality with region edge enhancement.

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