Ultrasound imaging is an incontestable vital tool for diagnosis, it provides
in non-invasive manner the internal structure of the body to detect eventually
diseases or abnormalities tissues. Unfortunately, the presence of speckle noise
in these images affects edges and fine details which limit the contrast
resolution and make diagnostic more difficult. In this paper, we propose a
denoising approach which combines logarithmic transformation and a non linear
diffusion tensor. Since speckle noise is multiplicative and nonwhite process,
the logarithmic transformation is a reasonable choice to convert
signaldependent or pure multiplicative noise to an additive one. The key idea
from using diffusion tensor is to adapt the flow diffusion towards the local
orientation by applying anisotropic diffusion along the coherent structure
direction of interesting features in the image. To illustrate the effective
performance of our algorithm, we present some experimental results on
synthetically and real echographic images
