Optics and Precision Engineering, Volume. 28, Issue 1, 174(2020)

Fractional differential weighted guided filtering for image texture preservation for medical ultrasound

CHEN Xiao-dong1、*, JI Jia-rui1, SHENG Jing1, JIN Hao2, and CAI Huai-yu1
Author Affiliations
  • 1[in Chinese]
  • 2[in Chinese]
  • show less

    Medical ultrasound image is an important basis for doctors to diagnose human tissue lesions. The speckle noise inherent in medical ultrasound images is easy to cause the destruction of texture information, which affects the doctor′s judgment on tissues and organs. Therefore, the denoising process of medical ultrasonic images has attracted much attention. In view of the limitation that the current medical ultrasound image denoising algorithm cannot maintain image texture, a fractional differential weighted guided filtering algorithm was proposed. Firstly, the speckle noise was converted into additive noise by logarithmic transformation. Combined with fractional differential algorithm, the texture factor was designed according to the correlation between pixel and edge texture, and the texture factor was used to improve the guided image filtering. Finally, the processing result of the medical ultrasound image was generated by the improved guided image filtering. In this paper, the ultrasound images of pig stomach and pig trachea were tested. Experimental results indicate that compared with the guided image filtering, the proposed method respectively gets 20.1% and 3.3% advancement for Structural Similarity Index Measurement and Cumulative Probability of Blur Detection. It can satisfy the proposed algorithm can effectively preserve the edge texture structure of the image while removing speckle noise.

    Tools

    Get Citation

    Copy Citation Text

    CHEN Xiao-dong, JI Jia-rui, SHENG Jing, JIN Hao, CAI Huai-yu. Fractional differential weighted guided filtering for image texture preservation for medical ultrasound[J]. Optics and Precision Engineering, 2020, 28(1): 174

    Download Citation

    EndNote(RIS)BibTexPlain Text
    Save article for my favorites
    Paper Information

    Category:

    Received: Jun. 19, 2019

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Mar. 25, 2020

    The Author Email: Xiao-dong CHEN (xdchen@tju.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/ope.20202801.0174

    Topics