Paper Info
Title
Real-time Parallelized Hybrid Median Filter for speckle removal in ultrasound images
Abstract
Medical Imaging has historically been very successful to expose the patient's anatomy beyond external visibility; thus, allowing more efficient and accurate treatments. The field of medicine continues to search for new techniques in order to increase accuracy, reduce complications, enable real-time feedback, allow early detection and reduce human errors. Various medical imaging techniques exist but suffer from multiple correlated noise or performance that hinders real-time application; ie, ultrasounds. Our contribution attempts to solve both of these problems efficiently to be enable real-time procedures Our work is based on the hybrid median filter. We implemented Parallelized Hybrid Median Filter on FPGA Virtex6 in order to be able to exploit parallelism and real-time capabilities. We were able to get the desirable visual results for experts at 382MHz frequency with 150μs completion time for full 512×512 ultrasound image to complete despeckle.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/GlobalSIP.2014.7032079
Signal and Information Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
biomedical ultrasonics,field programmable gate arrays,median filters,medical image processing,speckle,FPGA Virtex6,medical imaging techniques,patient anatomy,real-time feedback,real-time parallelized hybrid median filter,speckle removal,ultrasound images,FPGA,Hybrid Median Filter,despeckle filter,real-time,speckle,ultrasound
Computer vision,Visibility,Median filter,Speckle pattern,Medical imaging,Computer science,Field-programmable gate array,Exploit,Artificial intelligence,Speckle noise,Ultrasound
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Randa Ayoubi100.34
Magdy A. Bayoumi2803122.04
Rafic A. Ayoubi3667.60