Using a generalised method of moment approach and 2D-generalised autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity modelling for denoising ultrasound images

Abstract

This study presents a novel approach for ultrasound (US) images denoising. It concerns a class of generalised method of moments estimators with interesting asymptotic properties for wavelet coefficients 2D generalised autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity modelling. Afterwards, these estimators can be used for removing noise from US images. Indeed, a minimum mean -square error method is applied for estimating the clean wavelet image coefficients. To judge the quality of the denoising procedure, a link between the denoising efficiency procedure and a proposed asymmetry measure is established. Several tests have been carried out to prove the performance of the proposed approach. The obtained results are compared with those of contemporary image denoising methods using usual image quality assessment metrics and two proposed noreference quality metrics.