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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2014
National Taiwan University, Taipei, TW;
Pai-Chi Li, Taipei, TW;
Yu-Ming Wei, Taipei, TW;
National Taiwan University, Taipei, TW;
Abstract
A method of compensating ultrasound image comprising demarcating a plurality of a main material regions of an ultrasound image; executing a full compensation process to generate a full compensation image according to a first attenuation curve of the main material region; generating a brightness comparison table including a plurality of brightness zones which are correspond to a plurality of brightness compensation values according to a plurality of first pixel brightness values of the ultrasound image and a plurality of second pixel brightness values of the full compensation image; executing a linear sum process to generate a compensation image including a second attenuation curve according to the brightness compensation values; generating a compensation curve according to the first and second attenuation curve; and executing space comparison process to the compensation image to generate a better compensation image according to the compensation curve.