Comparative study of the methodologies used for subjective medical image quality assessment.

Healthcare professionals have been increasingly viewing medical images and videos in their routine clinical practice, and this in a wide variety of environments. Both the perception and interpretation of medical visual information, across all branches of practice or medical specialties (e.g.

Subjective and objective evaluations of feature selected multi output filter for speckle reduction on ultrasound images.

Ultrasonographic examination, either as visual inspection or quantitative analysis, is the most widely diagnostic resource. However, speckle noise is one of the drawbacks that makes it less effective than other medical imaging systems. Several speckle reduction methods often offer effective speckle reduction but generally suffer from oversmoothing, a blurring effect and a man-made appearance.