Abstrait

An optimized approach for enhancement of medical images

Sufola das Chagas Silva Araujo, K. Meenakshi Sundaram, Boopathi Gopalakrishnan

Ultrasound, an imaging technique based on high-frequency sound waves has been of great importance to the diagnostician and to the medical domain as a whole. Applications of ultrasound have grown tremendously. Furthermore advancements in technology developed three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound that provided more efficient evaluation and diagnosis of the anatomical structure by creating a virtual reality for the viewer. Complex nature of the images makes analysis difficult for the doctor. Apart from the various advantages of being non-invasive, radiation free and cheap a major drawback of ultrasound images is the presence of speckle noise, hindering accurate analysis. A new approach for enhanced ultrasound analysis is put forth considering an additional parameter of intensity in the filtering and clustering process. Visual inspection is considered to be the best testing tool.