Summary
The authors of this paper propose a new method for denoising and enhancing ultrasound images of the breast. They compare their method to existing methods and find that it outperforms them in terms of both qualitative and quantitative measures.
The proposed method is based on an unsharp masking technique that uses an extended complex diffusion filter instead of a smoothing filter.
The authors show that this modification results in better noise removal, information restoration, abnormality enhancement, and edge preservation. The authors’ work is promising and could lead to improved breast cancer detection using ultrasound imaging.
