Nonlocal total variation based on symmetric Kullback-Leibler divergence for the ultrasound image despeckling

BMC Medical Imaging

Table 1 The results of the KS test on the clinical ultrasound images and synthetic noisy images

Distribution	Gaussian	Rayleigh	Fisher-Tippett	Gamma
Shepp-Logan Phantom Gamma-distributed	0.5699	0.9884	0.3871	0.2210
Field II Kidney Phantom	0.3812	0.9673	0.3751	0.0781
Liver	0.3451	0.9567	0.3761	0.1261
IVUS	0.4523	0.9907	0.3744	0.0270
3DUS	0.3432	0.9549	0.3716	0.1195

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