Abstract
The displacement of mammary tissues in static ultrasound elastography is often contaminated by the speckle noise deteriorating its quality. Several techniques have been developed in this context, in order to treat the noise present in images of breast tissue displacement, the progress of research work in noise processing is always questioned, especially that must be taken into account the trade-off between noise reduction and preservation of breast tissue texture. In this paper, a new strategy has been proposed to reduce speckle noise. The proposed method not only filters the image against noise, but also preserves the details and contours of the tissue texture. The approach developed is based on the coupling between the image reconstructions by filtered back projection (RPF) with an adaptive filter. The proposed model proposed has been validated on an in-vivo database comprising 20 images of the breast tissues displacement. Qualitative and quantitative improvements were noted. By comparing the proposed method with the wavelet technique, we show that it is more efficient in terms of calculating the standard deviation between the pixels (SD), it is better in terms of calculation of the Contrast / Noise ratio (CNR). And is much faster than the wavelet technique. The results of the proposed model are encouraging, and the chosen method is ready to be used in the improvement of images of mammary tissue displacements in ultrasound elastography.
Highlights
By comparing the proposed method with the wavelet technique, we show that it is more efficient in terms of calculating the standard deviation between the pixels (SD), it is better in terms of calculation of the Contrast / Noise ratio (CNR)
The improvement of the displacements tissues in static breast ultrasound elastography is considered as a crucial technique, facilitating the visualization of the mammary structures at the time of the pathologies research
The proposed method was applied to 20 images of breast tissue displacements with malignant tumors, these results were validated by two radiologists
Summary
The improvement of the displacements tissues in static breast ultrasound elastography is considered as a crucial technique, facilitating the visualization of the mammary structures at the time of the pathologies research. The solution is to propose a robust and efficient treatment technique to obtain a better clinical analysis of the mammary structure and tissue displacements [3]. In this context, the process of image reconstruction and image filtering of breast tissue displacements can be considered as a means of robust improvement with a good ability to eliminate noise while preserving tissue contours. The proposed method was validated on 20 images with tissue displacements of the breast
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