Motion-tracking adaptive persistence and adaptive-size median filter for color Doppler processing in ultrasound systems on multicore platform

Abstract

Color Doppler processing in the ultrasound imaging systems is mainly used to observe the blood flow in the region of interest. The desired blood signal will be greatly affected by the speckle noises, and the major design issues are to eliminate these kinds of noises effectively. In this work, we propose the time-domain (1) motion-tracking adaptive persistence and spatial-domain (2) adaptive-size median filter for effectively eliminating the speckle noises, respectively. The proposed two filters have individually 2~3 dB better performance than the referenced algorithms, and the proposed adaptive de-speckle filters can also work together in the same system to obtain even better performances. At last, the proposed signal-processing algorithms are implemented on the multi-core platform, and the property of parallel processing significantly accelerates the computation.