Research Article

Ultrasound Image Enhancement Using Structure-Based Filtering

Table 4

Cost breakdown of the proposed method, measured by seconds. The numbers in parentheses are percentages.

Images Size Equal. (%) (%)Class. (%)Filter. (%)Total

Lena 0.60 (20.6) 1.41 (48.3) 0.01 (0.3) 0.90 (30.8) 2.92
Butterfly 0.60 (21.1) 1.39 (48.9) 0.03 (1.1) 0.82 (28.9) 2.84
Peppers 0.61 (20.3) 1.40 (46.7) 0.02 (0.7) 0.97 (32.3) 3.00
Cameraman 0.64 (20.9) 1.40 (45.8) 0.01 (0.3) 1.01 (33.0) 3.06
Kidney 0.39 (20.7) 0.95 (50.5) 0.01 (0.5) 0.53 (28.2) 1.88
Liver 0.11 (20.4) 0.31 (57.4) 0.00 (0.0) 0.12 (22.2) 0.54