TY - JOUR
T1 - A study of morphological edge enhancement by double structuring element for ultrasound B-mode images
AU - Tsubai, Masayoshi
AU - Nishimura, Toshihiro
AU - Sasaki, Akira
AU - Mitake, Tsuyoshi
AU - Umemura, Shin Ichiro
PY - 2004/12/1
Y1 - 2004/12/1
N2 - We discuss a new adaptive morphological operations using double structuring elements (DSEs) and apply them to boundary enhancement of ultrasound B-mode images with speckle pattern. The DSE is a couple of two different structuring elements. The DSE yields an edge-sharpening effect, changing with the local characteristics of the input image. General single structuring element does not have the sharpening function. Our method improves contrast around the tissue boundary without speckle emphasis and does not generate overshoot nor under-shoot around the boundary. We demonstrate its effectiveness in experiment using breast cancer images.
AB - We discuss a new adaptive morphological operations using double structuring elements (DSEs) and apply them to boundary enhancement of ultrasound B-mode images with speckle pattern. The DSE is a couple of two different structuring elements. The DSE yields an edge-sharpening effect, changing with the local characteristics of the input image. General single structuring element does not have the sharpening function. Our method improves contrast around the tissue boundary without speckle emphasis and does not generate overshoot nor under-shoot around the boundary. We demonstrate its effectiveness in experiment using breast cancer images.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:21644487245
SN - 1051-0117
VL - 2
SP - 1437
EP - 1440
JO - Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium
JF - Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium
T2 - 2004 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium
Y2 - 23 August 2004 through 27 August 2004
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