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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2005
Applicant:
Tadashi Tamura, North Haven, CT (US);
Inventor:
Tadashi Tamura, North Haven, CT (US);
Assignee:
Aloka Co., Ltd, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/48 (2006.01); G06K 9/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for detecting and enhancing edges in an ultrasound image includes the steps of applying an edge detection filter to at least one of a plurality of pixels of an ultrasound image to compute an edge detection value having a magnitude and a direction; and applying either a directional edge enhancement filter or a non-directional smoothing filter to at least one of the plurality of pixels of the ultrasound image.
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