Muthanna Journal of Engineering and Technology
Volume (11), Issue (2), Year (30 December 2023), Pages (30-35)
DOI:10.52113/3/eng/mjet/2023-11-02/30-35
Research Article By:
Shahad A. Thanoon, Zainab Alomari and Mahmood A. Mahmood
Corresponding author E-mail: shahad.abdulsalaam2021@stu.uoninevah.edu.iq
ABSTRACT
Ultrasound imaging, commonly known as sonography, is a medical diagnostic procedure that generates images of interior organs and tissues within the body by using high-frequency sound waves. Because of being non-ionizing, inexpensive, reproducible, non-invasive, simple-to-use, and able to display flow data performance characteristics, ultrasonic imaging has gained international interest. As a result, researchers and engineers sought to improve image quality. Image enhancement methods are used to minimize noise in medical image and raise the quality of imaging in term of contrast, speckle homogeneity and resolution and reduce artifacts that produced from proposed algorithms. Several academic papers in the literature use traditional image enhancement approaches. The primary goal of this paper is to highlight the properties and limitations of a number important and commonly used image enhancing techniques that aim to overcome the reduced imaging quality that result from unfocusing of plane wave imaging.
Keywords: Ultrasound imaging, Ultrasound enhancement, Minimum variance, Eigenspace-based minimum variance, Ultrafast imaging.