Robust Estimation of Ultrasound Pulses Using Outlier Resistant De Noising英文文献.pdfVIP

368 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING, VOL. 22, NO. 3, MARCH 2003 Robust Estimation of Ultrasound Pulses Using Outlier-Resistant De-Noising Oleg Michailovich, Student Member, IEEE, and Dan Adam*, Senior Member, IEEE Abstract—A different approach to the problem of estimation of vious relationship to the macroscopic properties of the interro- the ultrasound pulse spectrum, which usually arises as a part of gated object. Since most biological tissues consist of elements ultrasound image restoration algorithms, is presented. It is shown smaller in size than the acoustical wavelength, the signal ac- that this estimation problem can be reformulated in terms of a quired within a resolution cell comprises reflections of many de-noising problem. In this formulation, the log-spectrum of a radio-frequency line (RF-line) is viewed as a noisy measurement independent scatterers. The scatterers create de-phased echoes, of the signal that needs to be estimated, i.e., the ultrasound pulse causing interference and producing the pattern, termed speckle log-spectrum. The log-spectrum of the tissue reflectivity function noise. Although the speckle noise is a random process, it is not (i.e., tissue response) is considered as the noise to be rejected. The noise per se, because it is not devoid of information. The statis- contribution of the paper is twofold. First, it provides statistical tics of the speckle, which depends generally on the microstruc- description of the reflectivity function log-spectrum for the case, when the samples of the reflectivity function are independent ture of tissue parenchyma an