Experimental restoration of ultrasonic tomograms by modified Wiener filtres

On the basis of the experimentally identified imaging properties, esp. point-spread-function and image and noise spectra, Wiener-type filters have been designed and applied to ultrasonograms of artificial or tissue-phantom objects. The derived type of filters are advantageous in not needing the aver...

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Main Author: J. JAN
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Language:English
Published: Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences 2014-05-01
Series:Archives of Acoustics
Online Access:https://acoustics.ippt.pan.pl/index.php/aa/article/view/1171
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description On the basis of the experimentally identified imaging properties, esp. point-spread-function and image and noise spectra, Wiener-type filters have been designed and applied to ultrasonograms of artificial or tissue-phantom objects. The derived type of filters are advantageous in not needing the average power cross-or autospectrum involving the properties of the undistorted image that is difficult to provide experimentally. It has been found that the filters yield quite unacceptable images due to the amplification of noise but simple modifications of their transfer characteristics suppressing the influence of zeroes in the transfer function of the imaging system enable to obtain substantially better results. Considerable improvement in resolution is possible in spite of the strong nonlinearities involved in the image forming process. Suppressing speckle textures on the basis of differences between average power spectrum of the noise and of the useful image structures has shown only a modest success possibly due to rather small extend of the used image-and spectra matrices and also because of low extent of data not providing good spectral estimates.
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spelling doaj-art-48fd8052cc154b8ab8be98cd45c1edea2025-08-20T03:50:48ZengInstitute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of SciencesArchives of Acoustics0137-50752300-262X2014-05-01171Experimental restoration of ultrasonic tomograms by modified Wiener filtresJ. JAN0Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical UniversityOn the basis of the experimentally identified imaging properties, esp. point-spread-function and image and noise spectra, Wiener-type filters have been designed and applied to ultrasonograms of artificial or tissue-phantom objects. The derived type of filters are advantageous in not needing the average power cross-or autospectrum involving the properties of the undistorted image that is difficult to provide experimentally. It has been found that the filters yield quite unacceptable images due to the amplification of noise but simple modifications of their transfer characteristics suppressing the influence of zeroes in the transfer function of the imaging system enable to obtain substantially better results. Considerable improvement in resolution is possible in spite of the strong nonlinearities involved in the image forming process. Suppressing speckle textures on the basis of differences between average power spectrum of the noise and of the useful image structures has shown only a modest success possibly due to rather small extend of the used image-and spectra matrices and also because of low extent of data not providing good spectral estimates.https://acoustics.ippt.pan.pl/index.php/aa/article/view/1171
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Experimental restoration of ultrasonic tomograms by modified Wiener filtres
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title Experimental restoration of ultrasonic tomograms by modified Wiener filtres
title_full Experimental restoration of ultrasonic tomograms by modified Wiener filtres
title_fullStr Experimental restoration of ultrasonic tomograms by modified Wiener filtres
title_full_unstemmed Experimental restoration of ultrasonic tomograms by modified Wiener filtres
title_short Experimental restoration of ultrasonic tomograms by modified Wiener filtres
title_sort experimental restoration of ultrasonic tomograms by modified wiener filtres
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