The Speckle Noise Reduction and the Boundary Enhancement on Medical Ultrasound Images using the Cellular Neural Networks

抄録

The purpose is to remove the speckle noise and to emphasize the boundary of a tumor by filtering based on the intensity difference in the medical ultrasound images. The proposed method is evaluated using numerical phantom simulating ultrasound B-mode images, and the effect is confirmed by applying to medical ultrasound images. Therefore, some important features such as tissue boundaries and small tumors may be overlooked. A CNN (cellular neural networks) for the speckle reduction and the edge enhancement are proposed in this paper. A CNN which is a kind of recurrent neural network can deal with images by the weight of neurons called a cell. It could be obtained more detail images recognition compared with the previous studies. A determination template parameters of the CNN for ultrasound image processing is discussed. The experimental results show effectiveness of applying the proposed method to boundary enhancement and the speckle reduction of medical ultrasound image.