{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,12]],"date-time":"2026-04-12T04:59:37Z","timestamp":1775969977150,"version":"3.50.1"},"reference-count":46,"publisher":"Springer Science and Business Media LLC","issue":"1","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2014,6,18]],"date-time":"2014-06-18T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1403049600000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/tdm"}],"content-domain":{"domain":["link.springer.com"],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Circuits Syst Signal Process"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2015,1]]},"DOI":"10.1007\/s00034-014-9829-y","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,6,19]],"date-time":"2014-06-19T12:53:46Z","timestamp":1403182426000},"page":"185-208","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":36,"title":["Comparison of Despeckle Filters for Breast Ultrasound Images"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"34","author":[{"given":"Ju","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chen","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yun","family":"Cheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,6,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"9829_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"997","DOI":"10.1109\/TBME.2002.1028423","volume":"49","author":"K Abd-Elmoniem","year":"2002","unstructured":"K. Abd-Elmoniem, A. Youssef, Y. Kadah, Real-time speckle reduction and coherence enhancement in ultrasound imaging via nonlinear anisotropic diffusion. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 49, 997\u20131014 (2002)","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng."},{"key":"9829_CR2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2694","DOI":"10.1109\/TIP.2006.877360","volume":"15","author":"S Aja-Fern\u00e1ndez","year":"2006","unstructured":"S. Aja-Fern\u00e1ndez, C. Alberola-L\u00f3pez, On the estimation of the coefficient of variation for anisotropic diffusion speckle filtering. IEEE Trans. Image process. 15, 2694\u20132701 (2006)","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. Image process."},{"key":"9829_CR3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1792","DOI":"10.1016\/j.measurement.2012.04.005","volume":"45","author":"G Andria","year":"2012","unstructured":"G. Andria, F. Attivissimo, G. Cavone, N. Giaquinto, A.M.L. Lanzolla, Linear filtering of 2-D wavelet coefficients for denoising ultrasound medical images. Measurement 45, 1792\u20131800 (2012)","journal-title":"Measurement"},{"key":"9829_CR4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1353","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ultrasmedbio.2010.05.007","volume":"36","author":"S Balocco","year":"2010","unstructured":"S. Balocco, C. Gatta, O. Pujol, J. Mauri, P. Radeva, Srbf: speckle reducing bilateral Filtering. Ultrasound Med. Biol. 36, 1353\u20131363 (2010)","journal-title":"Ultrasound Med. Biol."},{"key":"9829_CR5","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"41","DOI":"10.1016\/0041-624X(86)90072-7","volume":"24","author":"JC Bamber","year":"1986","unstructured":"J.C. Bamber, C. Daft, Adaptive filtering for reduction of speckle in ultrasonic pulse-echo images. Ultrasonics 24, 41\u201344 (1986)","journal-title":"Ultrasonics"},{"key":"9829_CR6","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1109\/T-SU.1978.30978","volume":"25","author":"CB Burckhardt","year":"1978","unstructured":"C.B. Burckhardt, Speckle in ultrasound B-mode scans. IEEE Trans. Sonics Ultrason. 25, 1\u20136 (1978)","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. Sonics Ultrason."},{"key":"9829_CR7","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"679","DOI":"10.1109\/TPAMI.1986.4767851","volume":"8","author":"J Canny","year":"1986","unstructured":"J. Canny, A computational approach to edge detection. IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Machine Intell. 8, 679\u2013698 (1986)","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Machine Intell."},{"key":"9829_CR8","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"408","DOI":"10.3322\/caac.20134","volume":"61","author":"D Carol","year":"2011","unstructured":"D. Carol, S. Rebecca, B. Priti, J. Ahmedin, Breast cancer statistics, 2011. Cancer J. Clin. 61, 408\u2013418 (2011)","journal-title":"Cancer J. Clin."},{"key":"9829_CR9","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"425","DOI":"10.1109\/TMI.2007.906087","volume":"27","author":"P Coup\u00e9","year":"2008","unstructured":"P. Coup\u00e9, P. Yger, S. Prima, P. Hellier, C. Kervrann, C. Barillot, An optimized blockwise non local means denoising filter for 3D magnetic resonance images. IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 27, 425\u2013441 (2008)","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging"},{"key":"9829_CR10","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2221","DOI":"10.1109\/TIP.2009.2024064","volume":"18","author":"P Coup\u00e9","year":"2009","unstructured":"P. Coup\u00e9, P. Hellier, C. Kervrann, C. Barillot, Nonlocal means-based speckle filtering for ultrasound images. IEEE Trans. Image Proces. 18, 2221\u20132229 (2009)","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. Image Proces."},{"key":"9829_CR11","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2080","DOI":"10.1109\/TIP.2007.901238","volume":"16","author":"K Dabov","year":"2007","unstructured":"K. Dabov, A. Foi, V. Katkovnik, K. Egiazarian, Image denoising by sparse 3D transform-domain collaborative filtering. IEEE Trans. Image Process. 16, 2080\u20132095 (2007)","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. Image Process."},{"key":"9829_CR12","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"405","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ultras.2004.11.003","volume":"43","author":"RG Dantas","year":"2005","unstructured":"R.G. Dantas, E.T. Costa, S. Leeman, Ultrasound speckle and equivalent scatterers. Ultrasonics 43, 405\u2013420 (2005)","journal-title":"Ultrasonics"},{"key":"9829_CR13","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"L. De Marchi, N. Testoni, N. Speciale, Prostate tissue characterization via ultrasound speckle statistics, in IEEE Internation Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, 2006, pp. 208\u2013211","DOI":"10.1109\/ISSPIT.2006.270798"},{"key":"9829_CR14","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2661","DOI":"10.1109\/TIP.2009.2029593","volume":"18","author":"C Deledalle","year":"2009","unstructured":"C. Deledalle, L. Denis, F. Tupin, Iterative weighted maximum likelihood denoising with probabilistic patch-based weights. IEEE Trans. Image Process. 18, 2661\u20132672 (2009)","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. Image Process."},{"key":"9829_CR15","unstructured":"V. Dutt, Statistical analysis of ultrasound echo envelope. Ph.D. dissertation, Mayo Graduate School, Rochester, MN, 1995"},{"key":"9829_CR16","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1141","DOI":"10.1109\/TIP.2002.801126","volume":"11","author":"M Elad","year":"2002","unstructured":"M. Elad, On the origin of the bilateral filter and ways to improve It. IEEE Trans. Image Process. 11, 1141\u20131151 (2002)","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. Image Process."},{"key":"9829_CR17","first-page":"1231","volume":"E76\u2013B","author":"D Fernandes","year":"1993","unstructured":"D. Fernandes, M. Sekine, Suppression of Weibull radar clutter. IEICE Trans. Commun. E76\u2013B, 1231\u20131235 (1993)","journal-title":"IEICE Trans. Commun."},{"key":"9829_CR18","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"82","DOI":"10.1109\/TUFFC.2011.1776","volume":"58","author":"S Finn","year":"2011","unstructured":"S. Finn, M. Glavin, E. Jones, Echocardiographic speckle reduction comparison. IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 58, 82\u2013101 (2011)","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control"},{"key":"9829_CR19","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"157","DOI":"10.1109\/TPAMI.1982.4767223","volume":"4","author":"V Frost","year":"1982","unstructured":"V. Frost, J. Stiles, K. Shanmugan, J. Holtzman, A model for radar images and its application to adaptive digital filtering of multiplicative noise. IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 4, 157\u2013166 (1982)","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell."},{"key":"9829_CR20","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1145","DOI":"10.1364\/JOSA.66.001145","volume":"66","author":"JW Goodman","year":"1976","unstructured":"J.W. Goodman, Some fundamental properties of speckle. J. Opt. Soc. Am. 66, 1145\u20131149 (1976)","journal-title":"J. Opt. Soc. Am."},{"key":"9829_CR21","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"129","DOI":"10.1049\/ip-vis:20050975","volume":"152","author":"S Gupta","year":"2005","unstructured":"S. Gupta, R.C. Chauhan, S.C. Sexana, Locally adaptive wavelet domain Bayesian processor for denoising medical ultrasound images using speckle modelling based on Rayleigh distribution. IEEE Proc. Vision Image Signal Process. 152, 129\u2013135 (2005)","journal-title":"IEEE Proc. Vision Image Signal Process."},{"key":"9829_CR22","unstructured":"http:\/\/field-ii.dk\/?examples\/cyst_phantom\/cyst_phantom.html , last updated: 19:45 on Mon, 30 Apr 2012"},{"key":"9829_CR23","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"M. Insana, T.J. Hall, G.G. Cox, J.S. Rosenthal, Progress in quantitative ultrasonic imaging, in Proceedings of the SPIE Medical Imaging III, Image Formation, 1989, pp. 2\u20139","DOI":"10.1117\/12.953184"},{"key":"9829_CR24","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"743","DOI":"10.1117\/12.7973900","volume":"25","author":"MF Insana","year":"1986","unstructured":"M.F. Insana, R.F. Wagner, B.S. Garra, D.G. Brown, T.H. Shawker, Analysis of ultrasound image texture via generalized Rician statistics. Opt. Eng. 25, 743\u2013748 (1986)","journal-title":"Opt. Eng."},{"key":"9829_CR25","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"351","DOI":"10.1007\/BF02520003","volume":"34","author":"JA Jensen","year":"1996","unstructured":"J.A. Jensen, Field: a program for simulating ultrasound systems. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 34, 351\u2013353 (1996)","journal-title":"Med. Biol. Eng. Comput."},{"key":"9829_CR26","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1396","DOI":"10.1121\/1.408579","volume":"95","author":"D Kaplan","year":"1994","unstructured":"D. Kaplan, Q. Ma, on the statistical characteristics of the log-compressed Rayleigh signals: theorical formulation and experimental results. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 95, 1396\u20131400 (1994)","journal-title":"J. Acoust. Soc. Am."},{"key":"9829_CR27","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"C. Kervrann, J. Boulanger, P. Coup\u00e9, Bayesian non-local means filter, image redundancy and adaptive dictionaries for noise removal, in Proceedings of the Conference on Scale-Space and Variable Method Ischia, Italy, 2007, pp. 520\u2013532","DOI":"10.1007\/978-3-540-72823-8_45"},{"key":"9829_CR28","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1412","DOI":"10.1109\/TIP.2007.891803","volume":"16","author":"K Krissian","year":"2007","unstructured":"K. Krissian, C. Westin, R. Kikinis, K.G. Vosburgh, Oriented speckle reducing anisotropic diffusion. IEEE Trans. Image Process. 16, 1412\u20131424 (2007)","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. Image Process."},{"key":"9829_CR29","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"165","DOI":"10.1109\/TPAMI.1985.4767641","volume":"7","author":"DT Kuan","year":"1985","unstructured":"D.T. Kuan, A.A. Sawchuk, Adaptive noise smoothing filter for images with signal dependent noise. IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Machine Intell. 7, 165\u2013177 (1985)","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Machine Intell."},{"key":"9829_CR30","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"373","DOI":"10.1109\/TASSP.1987.1165131","volume":"35","author":"DT Kuan","year":"1987","unstructured":"D.T. Kuan, A.A. Sawchuk, T.C. Strand, P. Chavel, Adaptive restoration of images with speckle. IEEE Trans. Acoust. Speech Signal Process. 35, 373\u2013383 (1987)","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. Acoust. Speech Signal Process."},{"key":"9829_CR31","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"165","DOI":"10.1109\/TPAMI.1980.4766994","volume":"2","author":"J Lee","year":"1980","unstructured":"J. Lee, Digital image enhancement and noise filtering by use of local statistics. IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal Machine Intell. 2, 165\u2013168 (1980)","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal Machine Intell."},{"key":"9829_CR32","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1653","DOI":"10.1109\/TUFFC.2005.1561621","volume":"52","author":"C Loizou","year":"2005","unstructured":"C. Loizou, C. Pattichis, C. Christodoulou, R. Istepanian, M. Pantziaris, A. Nicolaides, Comparative evaluation of despeckle filtering in ultrasound imaging of the carotid artery. IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 52, 1653\u20131669 (2005)","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control"},{"key":"9829_CR33","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4695","DOI":"10.1109\/TIP.2012.2214050","volume":"21","author":"A Mittal","year":"2012","unstructured":"A. Mittal, A.K. Moorthy, A.C. Bovik, No-reference image quality assessment in the spatial domain. IEEE Trans. Image Process. 21, 4695\u20134708 (2012)","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. Image Process."},{"key":"9829_CR34","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"209","DOI":"10.1109\/LSP.2012.2227726","volume":"20","author":"A Mittal","year":"2013","unstructured":"A. Mittal, R. Soundararajan, A.C. Bovik, Making a \u2018completely blind\u2019 image quality analyzer. IEEE Signal Process. Lett. 20, 209\u2013212 (2013)","journal-title":"IEEE Signal Process. Lett."},{"key":"9829_CR35","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"606","DOI":"10.1109\/TGRS.2011.2161586","volume":"50","author":"S Parrilli","year":"2012","unstructured":"S. Parrilli, M. Poderico, C.V. Angelino, L. Verdoliva, A nonlocal SAR image denoising algorithm based on LLMMSE wavelet shrinkage. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens. 50, 606\u2013616 (2012)","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens."},{"key":"9829_CR36","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"629","DOI":"10.1109\/34.56205","volume":"12","author":"P Perona","year":"1990","unstructured":"P. Perona, J. Malik, Scale-space and edge detection using anisotropic diffusion. IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 12, 629\u2013639 (1990)","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell."},{"key":"9829_CR37","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"323","DOI":"10.1109\/TMI.2003.809588","volume":"22","author":"A Pizurica","year":"2003","unstructured":"A. Pizurica, W. Philips, I. Lemahieu, M. Acheroy, A versatile wavelet domain noise filtration technique for medical imaging. IEEE Trans. Med Imaging 22, 323\u2013331 (2003)","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. Med Imaging"},{"key":"9829_CR38","volume-title":"Digital Image Processing","author":"WK Pratt","year":"1978","unstructured":"W.K. Pratt, Digital Image Processing (Wiley, New York, 1978)"},{"key":"9829_CR39","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"871","DOI":"10.1109\/TUFFC.2002.1020157","volume":"49","author":"BI Raju","year":"2002","unstructured":"B.I. Raju, M.A. Srinivasan, Statistics of envelope of high-frequency ultrasonic backscatter from human skin in vivo. IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelect. Freq. Control 49, 871\u2013882 (2002)","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelect. Freq. Control"},{"key":"9829_CR40","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"727","DOI":"10.1109\/58.842062","volume":"47","author":"PM Shankar","year":"2000","unstructured":"P.M. Shankar, A general statistical model for ultrasonic backscattering from tissues. IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelect. Freq. Control 47, 727\u2013736 (2000)","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelect. Freq. Control"},{"key":"9829_CR41","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"P.C. Tay, S.T. Acton, J.A. Hossack, Ultrasound despeckle using an adaptive window stochastic approach, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2006, 2549\u20132552","DOI":"10.1109\/ICIP.2006.312979"},{"key":"9829_CR42","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"C. Tomasi, R. Manduchi, Bilateral filtering for gray and color images, in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computer Vision, 1998, pp. 839\u2013846","DOI":"10.1109\/ICCV.1998.710815"},{"key":"9829_CR43","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"156","DOI":"10.1109\/T-SU.1983.31404","volume":"3","author":"R Wagner","year":"1983","unstructured":"R. Wagner, S. Smith, J. Sandrik, H. Lopez, Statistics of speckle in ultrasound B-scans. IEEE Trans. Sonics Ultrason. 3, 156\u2013163 (1983)","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. Sonics Ultrason."},{"key":"9829_CR44","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"600","DOI":"10.1109\/TIP.2003.819861","volume":"13","author":"Z Wang","year":"2004","unstructured":"Z. Wang, A.C. Bovik, H.R. Sheikh, E.P. Simoncelli, Image quality assessment: from error visibility to structural similarity. IEEE Trans. Image Process. 13, 600\u2013612 (2004)","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. Image Process."},{"key":"9829_CR45","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1260","DOI":"10.1109\/TIP.2002.804276","volume":"11","author":"Y Yu","year":"2002","unstructured":"Y. Yu, S.T. Acton, Speckle reducing anisotropic diffusion. IEEE Trans. Image Process. 11, 1260\u20131270 (2002)","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. Image Process."},{"key":"9829_CR46","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"532","DOI":"10.1109\/42.730398","volume":"17","author":"X Zong","year":"1998","unstructured":"X. Zong, A.F. Laine, E.A. Geiser, Speckle reduction and contrast enhancement of echocardiograms via multiscale nonlinear processing. IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 17, 532\u2013540 (1998)","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging"}],"container-title":["Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/content\/pdf\/10.1007\/s00034-014-9829-y.pdf","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00034-014-9829-y\/fulltext.html","content-type":"text\/html","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/content\/pdf\/10.1007\/s00034-014-9829-y","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,3]],"date-time":"2025-05-03T11:42:00Z","timestamp":1746272520000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/10.1007\/s00034-014-9829-y"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2014,6,18]]},"references-count":46,"journal-issue":{"issue":"1","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2015,1]]}},"alternative-id":["9829"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00034-014-9829-y","relation":{},"ISSN":["0278-081X","1531-5878"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0278-081X","type":"print"},{"value":"1531-5878","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2014,6,18]]}}}