GPU-Based Block-Wise Nonlocal Means Denoising for 3D Ultrasound Images

<table class="table-group" width="800px"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><img alt="921303.fig.004a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/cmmm/volume-2013/921303/figures/921303.fig.004a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>  US fetus (428 × 354 × 209) </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="921303.fig.004b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/cmmm/volume-2013/921303/figures/921303.fig.004b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b>US carotid artery (396 × 297 × 338)</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Real ultrasound volumes for experiment.</table>

Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine

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Figure 4: GPU-Based Block-Wise Nonlocal Means Denoising for 3D Ultrasound Images 