Usefulness of ultrasonic speckle decomposition procedure for tissue characterization
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چکیده
Speckle is an inherent characteristic of tissues when assessed by ultrasound. De-speckling is performed to improve the visualization of anatomical details but the information encoded in speckle is often discarded. In this paper we propose an ultrasonic decomposition procedure which estimates despeckled and speckle images starting with images created from Radio Frequency (RF) data. These images are used to extract features of tissue echogenicity (acoustic properties) and textural information of the tissue parenchyma. Three-case studies demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed decomposition methodology for tissue characterization.
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