Condensed anisotropic diffusion for speckle reducton and enhancement in ultrasonography

EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing

Table 4 CNR value for the compared algorithms

	Simulated B mode image		Field II simulated foetus image		Real US image
	Region 1	Region 2	Region 1	Region 2	Region 1	Region 2
Original (Noisy)	0.7862	0.7382	0.6489	0.6821	0.5656	0.5365
PM	0.5289	0.4987	0.5332	0.5903	0.4087	0.4008
AWMF	0.6032	0.5037	0.5123	0.5952	0.4239	0.4107
SRAD	0.3185	0.3065	0.4165	0.4360	0.3543	0.3365
NCD	0.2568	0.2167	0.3085	0.2987	0.2987	0.2754
MBAD	0.2367	0.1754	0.2234	0.2145	0.1967	0.1965
LPND	0.0938	0.0838	0.1045	0.1467	0.1245	0.1376
CAD	0.0023	0.0021	0.0043	0.0035	0.0024	0.0032