Evaluation of Inpainting in Speckled and Despeckled 2D Ultrasound Medical Images

Abstract

Image processing has paved its way through various applications in the medical field, where researches are being carried out to prompt and improvise the care and treatment given to patients in all aspects. Medical image processing applications concerns the need for obtaining images as per the requirement. Inpainting of markers on medical images generated using various modalities is crucial to process the images for numerous applications. One of the inherent and profoundly seen problem in medical images, especially in the ultrasound images is the speckle noise. It alters the edges, fine details and other features of organs that is required for interpretation. In this paper, the need for despeckling of 2D ultrasound images is studied by evaluating the performance metrics for inpainting based on fast marching algorithm of speckled and despeckled 2D ultrasound images.