Low cost ultrasound machines are an indispensable diagnosis tool in every healthcare center. Therefore, it owns a tremendous potential in medical imaging tools market especially in developing countries. Nevertheless, safety issues performance in low cost ultrasound machine has been addressed. Multiple numbers of unfulfilled qualities of low end and low cost ultrasound machine does not achieve the international standard requirements. This issue undeniably would be obstacles for the development of low cost ultrasound machine. A low quality ultrasound machine would result in inaccuracies in medical diagnosis due to its poor image quality. This book, therefore, provides ultrasound image enhancement techniques and its application using Matlab programming implementation. This should be especially useful for students, lecturers and professional researchers in biomedical and image processing fields.

Ultrasound has been widely used in medical diagnostic and therapeutic. This is due to the safety, easiness and cost of this modality application. The existing ultrasound machine is able to visualize the human tissue as acoustic function in 4-dimension. This enables the fetus movement analysis during third trimester pregnancy. However, the dependency of operator causes difficulties to obtain the standard diagnostic image. Manual ultrasound marker measurements are easily prone to human error. The in-homogeneity of human tissue causes the noise of ultrasound image. In cases of low end ultrasound machine application, the images qualities are getting worse due to speckle noise. This book, therefore, provides the basic physics of ultrasound medical imaging. Image processing techniques covered from data acquisition, pre-processing, speckle noise reduction and segmentation are introduced. Several clinical applications of ultrasound image processing are described using Matlab programming implementation. This should be especially useful for students, lecturers or professional researchers in biomedical and image processing fields.

This book features a collection of high-quality, peer-reviewed papers presented at the Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Communication (ICICC 2021) organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru, India, on 26-27 November 2021. The book is organized in two volumes and discusses advanced and multi-disciplinary research regarding the design of smart computing and informatics. It focuses on innovation paradigms in system knowledge, intelligence and sustainability that can be applied to provide practical solutions to a number of problems in society, the environment and industry. Further, the book also addresses the deployment of emerging computational and knowledge transfer approaches, optimizing solutions in various disciplines of science, technology and health care.