An Approach for Speckle Noise Reduction from US Images using Enhanced Sticks Filtering

Digital images are generally affected by noise due to acquisition process or by transmission process [7]. In most of the images we can found a large variety of noise. The numbers of algorithms are used to remove noise from the image depending upon noise model. Number of researchers are working on the field of de-noise the images [10]. In this paper we proposed an enhanced sticks filtering technique to reduce speckle noise from ultrasound images. We also studied different existing de-noising algorithms and compare them with the proposed method. The performance comparisons in terms of improvement in signal to noise ratio (SNR) of the proposed scheme, MSE (Mean Square Error) of the proposed method etc.