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Modeling of ultrasound speckle with application in flaw detection in metals
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Modeling of ultrasound speckle with application in flaw detection in metals

FERNANDS Cohen
IEEE transactions on signal processing, v 40(3), pp 624-632
01 Mar 1992

Abstract

The problem of analyzing and modeling the speckle that occurs in coherent acoustic imagery is discussed. A complex RF acoustic speckle field is approximated by a circularly symmetric complex Gaussian Markov random field (GMRF) which has a rational power spectral density. The use of a GMRF field model results in a substantial reduction in the representation and analysis complexity of the backscatter image. It appears to capture the speckle structure well, is consistent with the first-order marginal statistics of the complex or RF amplitude speckle, and explains the homogeneous coarseness appearance of the speckle in terms of a homogeneous colored random field with a definite correlation structure. This is of great consequence in target recognition problems, where the target structure is a priori unknown, highly variable, and no meaningful and simple model can represent its manifestation in the image. (C.A.B.)

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