This chapter summaries Part II of this book.

Chapter Contents:

• 11.1 Summary on despeckle filtering
• 11.2 Future directions
• References

Inspec keywords: medical image processing; biomedical ultrasonics; speckle; spatial filters; noise

Other keywords: linear despeckle filtering; ultrasound imaging; denoising; noise estimation; speckle filtering; nonlinear despeckle filtering; wavelet despeckle filtering

Subjects: Patient diagnostic methods and instrumentation; Computer vision and image processing techniques; Optical, image and video signal processing; Sonic and ultrasonic radiation (medical uses); Sonic and ultrasonic applications; Biology and medical computing; Sonic and ultrasonic radiation (biomedical imaging/measurement)