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530 ieee transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control, vol. 54, no. 3, march 2007 Ultrasound Speckle Reduction Using Modified Gabor Filters Ricardo G. Dantas and Eduardo T. Costa Abstract—B-mode ultrasound images are characterized processing, and the output is achieved by processing the by speckle artifact, which may make the interpretation of backscattered radio-frequency (RF) data (individual RF images difficult. One widely used method for ultrasound lines or the whole RF image) or the envelope data (A- speckle reduction is the split spectrum processing (SSP), but the use of one-dimensional (1-D), narrow-band filters lines or B-mode images). Examples of such methods are makes the resultant image experience a significant resolu- the split spectrum processing (SSP) [4]–[6], the deconvolu- tion loss. In order to overcome this critical drawback, we tion method [7], [8], and the whole class of adaptive filter- propose a novel method for speckle reduction in ultrasound ing [9]–[11], among others. The SSP, as the name implies, medical imaging, which uses a bank of wideband 2-D direc- splits individual, one-dimensional (1-D) RF lines in differ- tive filters, based on modified Gabor functions. Each filter is applied to the 2-D radio-frequency (RF) data, resulting in a ent frequency bands, making use of a set of narrow band- B-mode image filtered in a given direction. The compound- pass filters. The output of each filter is envelope detected, ing of the filters outputs give rise to a final image in which resulting in different A-lines, which present the same struc- speckle is reduced and the structure