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|Dong Ni, Lei Zhu, Qinjun Hu, Helin Feng
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|Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd.
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The present invention relates to ultrasound techniques, and more particularly, to data processing techniques in ultrasound imaging, especially to an image enhancement and speckle mitigation method for improving the quality of ultrasound images.
Here, the ultrasound imaging system employs the image enhancement module to realize post-processing of image, which aims at improving the quality of ultrasound images and assisting medical diagnosis, in particular, by overcoming problems in two aspects. The first aspect is to enhance significant structures or features in the image which interest the doctors, including bones, capsules, canals, cavities or the like. That is to say, all distinguishable structures should remain in the resulted image after ultrasound image enhancement, including normal and abnormal structures, while providing sufficient textural and contrast information. In the second aspect, speckles should be suppressed. If the reflection surface of a tissue within the human body is not so smooth that the coarseness of surfaces are equal to the wavelength of the incoming ultrasound, the echo signals generated by different reflection sources may overlay or counteract due to phase difference. Such an overlay or counteraction is represented visually as grains of the image. As such, speckle noises are always present when scan line data at different locations are processed and combined to form a final ultrasound image. The speckle noises will mask some useful information in the image, thus interfering with the doctor's diagnosis to some extent. Speckle mitigation is thus another object for enhancing image.
In relation to the above problems, an image enhancement method with a gradient-based segmentation is disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,208,763 and 6,592,523. In this method, an image is segmented into a structural and a non-structural region according to the gradient information. Anisotropy sharpening is performed on the structural region based on Intensity-weighted 2nd order directional derivative, to enhance contrast of edges of the image. Isotropic smoothing is performed on the image data classified as a non-structural region, to mitigate speckle noise. The above prior art, however, has the following disadvantages: (1) although the method in the patent advantageously segments an image into a structural and a non-structural region, but it leaves out some inconspicuous features by only taking gradient scale information into account, in particular, the enhancement effect relies too much on the segmentation template when the structural region takes the gray-scale of the image as the sharpening coefficient, and too much discontinuity will occur at the edges of the segmentation template. Accordingly the enhancement effect is not ideal; and (2) linear smoothing of the non-structural region cannot mitigate speckle noises greatly.
The present invention is made in view of the above disadvantages.
According to on object of present invention, there's provided a method for enhancing an ultrasound image, wherein the ultrasound image is segmented into a feature region and a non-feature region, while sufficiently utilizing features contained in the ultrasound image, in particular including some inconspicuous features, for enhancing the ultrasound image.
According to another object of present invention, there's provided a new method of processing the feature region, which can make the enhanced image not susceptive of the image segmentation and avoid dependence of the enhancement effect on the segmentation template, so as not to produce an evident artificial boundary between the feature region and the non-feature region but to highlight some special information in the image and to remove or mitigate invalid information.
According to another object of present invention, there's provided a method of mitigating speckle noises, in particular black speckles in the ultrasound image.
A final ultrasound image resulted from the method for enhancing the ultrasonic image and the method for mitigating speckles is particularly suitable for the visual system of the human beings.
According to one aspect of present invention, there's provided a method for an enhancing ultrasound image for use in an ultrasound imaging system, comprising steps of:
A) reading the ultrasound image;
B) segmenting the ultrasound image into a feature region and a non-feature region based on gradient information and gray-scale information in the image, and then performing different data processing on the image classified as the feature region and the non-feature region respectively;
C) merging the processed feature region and non-feature region to produce an enhanced image.
Preferably, wherein the step of segmenting the image comprises a step of extracting distinct boundaries in the image by means of the gradient information and a step of extracting brighter region in the image by means of the gray-scale information to generate a gray image template.
Preferably, wherein the step of segmenting the image further comprises a step of extracting weak boundaries in the image by means of variance information in the ultrasonic image, to generate a variance image template.
Preferably, the step of segmenting the image further comprises a step of post-processing the variance image template to produce a segmentation template, wherein the feature region being set as the image region indicated by the segmentation template.
Preferably, wherein the step of post-processing the variance image template further comprises a step of averaging the segmentation template of continuous frames, wherein for a feature region newly added to the image template of current frame, the feature region is filled in as a part of the segmentation template only if several continuous frames for the feature region satisfy a segmentation condition.
According to a second aspect of present invention, the data processing on image data classified as the feature region comprising a step of anisotropy smoothing the image data which comprises sub-steps of:
In a preferable mode, the data processing on the image data classified as the feature region further comprises a step of anisotropy sharpening the anisotropically smoothed pixels, comprising sub-steps of:
In a preferable mode, the image sharpening coefficient Rsharpen=C*std*(Mframe
Where C is a predetermined constant, std is the standard variation for gray image within a neighborhood of each pixel, std=√{square root over (E[I−E(I)]2)}, wherein I represents a gray scale intensity,
According to a third aspect of present invention, speckle noise is suppressed by locally adjusting the gray scale intensity of the image data classified as the non-feature region, comprising
a) dividing the input image into blocks, and computing a gray scale mean of each blocked image, Meanblock;
b) setting different gray-scale adjustment coefficients Radjust based on the different gradient values of various pixels in the input ultrasonic image; and
c) computing an adjusted gray scale intensity Iadjusted to produce a local gray-scale adjusted image,
Iadjusted=Meanblock+(Iin−Meanblock)*Radjust, wherein Iin represents the gray scale intensity of the input image.
In a preferable mode, black speckles are further suppressed by processing the local gray-scale adjusted image, comprising:
i) computing a mean image represented by its gray scale intensity Imean for the input image Im or the local gray-scale adjusted image Iadjusted by using a neighbor domain of each pixel with variable size;
ii) determining a compensating pixel and its respective compensating amount based on the mean image Imean; and
iii) adding the compensating amount for each compensating pixel into the input image Iin or the local gray-scale adjusted image Iadjusted, to remove the speckles from the non-feature region.
In a preferable mode, the compensating pixel means a pixel for which an image difference Idiff obtained by subtracting the mean image Imean from the input image Iin or the local gray-scale adjusted image Iadjusted is greater than a predetermined value; and the compensating amount for the compensating pixel is multiples of the respective difference Idiff.
With the above technical solutions, the feature information in the ultrasonic image may be extracted and enhanced more effectively, and the image enhancement effect relies slightly upon the image segmentation, while it is advantageous to mitigate black speckles. The enhanced image is thus more suitable for the visual system of the human beings and more helpful for reference in medical diagnosis. The above and other advantages of present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Detailed descriptions will be made below to the invention, in conjunction with a preferred embodiment as shown in the accompanying drawings.
The invention can be implemented with the ultrasound imaging system shown in
The method for enhancing an ultrasound image as provided in the invention is used by an ultrasound imaging system to optimize display of an ultrasound scanned image. As shown in
1. Image Segmentation
In the invention, a feature region is defined as a region having rich image variations and higher brightness, and a non-feature region are defined as others except the feature region. Generally, the gray scale intensities of pixels in a non-feature region are relatively consistent. To extract different types of features from an image, the image segmentation according to present invention is based on gradient information and gray information. Gradient information is used to extract distinct boundaries from the image and gray-scale information is used to select brighter region. More preferably, variance information may be used in the image segmentation process, wherein variance may be used to extract boundaries of the image that are not distinct but need further enhancement (also referred to as "weak boundary"). In present invention, the segmentation of the image into a feature region and a non-feature region is the basis. The segmentation process will be described in detail below.
Referring to
1.1 Gradient Processing
At step S42, a gradient threshold is so set that the number of pixels in the image each having a gradient value greater than the gradient threshold GTh accounts for a predetermined percentage (for example, 25%) of total pixels. At step S43, gradient G of each pixel is compared to the threshold GTh; if G>GTh, a value in the gradient image template corresponding to said pixel is set to 1 in step 44; otherwise the value set to 0 in step S45. The process is repeated until the gradient values of all the pixels in the image are compared. Finally, the resulted gradient image template shall include those pixels whose gradient values exceed the threshold GTh, and thus the distinct boundary information is extracted from the image.
1.2 Gray-Scale Processing
1.3 Variance Processing
Where E represents an average over a neighbor domain of each pixel. At step S63, the global variance image is divided into blocks (for example but not limited to herein, each block having a size of 9*9), and the mean variation of variance Block_Mean (Var) and Standard variation of variance Block_Std (Var) for each block are calculated. A local variance threshold Block_VarTh is determined based on the mean variation and the standard variation of variance.
For example (but not limited to), Block_VarTh=Block_Mean+Block_Std.
At steps S64 and S65, the variance Var is compared to the Block_VarTh and the pixels each having a variation greater than Block_VarTh are added into the gray image template. The process is repeated until all the pixels are compared. Thus a final variance image template is produced.
Here, the variance threshold Block_VarTh is a local threshold, so it's easier to capture regions in which gradient values of pixels are not large in the whole but the local variations are relatively large, including the weak boundary. These regions usually include the portions having structural features in relatively uniform regions. Although the gradient values in the portions are not large, they tend to attract a viewer, and thus need enhancing particularly. It is noted that the variance information needs to be used in combination with the gradient information; otherwise, for local regions having many strong boundaries, useful features may be lost when being segmented by only using the variance information.
1.4 Template Post-Processing
1.4.1 8-Connectivity
Removal of small structures with 8-connectivity method means to combine adjacent pixels into a connected region and remove the connected regions in which the number of pixels is less than a predetermined threshold value. Specifically, the 8-connectivity process comprises the following steps:
a) In the variance image template, searching for the template pixels line by line, and the first searched pixel is marked as marker value of 1. Hereafter, every time a template pixel is searched, the marker value is incremented by 1. This process is repeated up to the end of template. Thus a diagram of marker values is produced.
b) scanning the diagram of marker values, wherein for each pixel, its marker value is replaced by the minimum marker value in its 8 neighboring pixels. The process is repeated until the marker values in the diagram will no longer change. The pixels with the same marker value form a connected region.
c) removing the connected region If the number of pixels in the connected region is less than the predetermined threshold.
1.4.2. Template Modification
The template modification process is as follows:
1) rectifying the continuity of edges and structures of the image. By setting a region gradient-increasing threshold (for example, by multiplying GTh with a constant less than 1, such as 0.85) and searching around the template pixels, if the gradient value of one non-template pixel is greater than the threshold, the non-template pixel may be added into the template.
2) Further modifying the template to enable the template to have a reasonable structure. For a template pixel, if the number of template pixels in its 3*3 neighbors is below a constant (for example, 3), it will be modified as a non-template pixel. For a non-template pixel, if the number of template pixels in its 3*3 neighbors is greater than a constant (for example, 6), it will be modified as a template pixel. The term "template pixel" means a pixel with a value of 1 in the template, and "non-template pixel" means a pixel with a value of 0 in the template.
1.4.3. Template Frame-Averaging
To reduce harmful effect caused by a sudden change of template between neighboring frames in the image sequence, the template post-processing in the image segmentation according to present invention includes a process of averaging the segmentation template of continuous frames, which comprises the following steps:
a) setting a template frame-averaging matrix Mframe
b) for the second frame and subsequent frames, modifying the value for each element in the matrix Mframe
c) determining the segmentation template for the current frame according to the matrix Mframe
In this way, for a feature region newly added to the image template of the current frame, the feature region may be filled in as a part of the segmentation template only if several continuous frames for the feature region satisfy a condition of segmentation into the template (e.g. the pixel value of the corresponding point in the template frame-averaging matrix values is greater than 128). Thereby, the possibility of sudden change of template between frames is effectively reduced. As shown in
Once the segmentation template is determined, the feature region and non-feature region are determined. For example, the regions with value of 1 in the segmentation template are set as a feature region and the regions with value of 0 are set as a non-feature region. As shown in
2. Data Processing on Feature Regions
2.1 Anisotropy Smoothing
2.2 Anisotropy Sharpening
0� Laplacian=I −1+2*I 0 +I +1
is calculated. By multiplying the orientational Laplacian with an image-sharpening coefficient Rsharpen, the anisotropically sharpened result Isharpened is generated. The calculation of Rsharpen is given by:
R sharpen =C*std*(M frame
Where std is the standard variation for the gray image in the neighborhood (for example, a 3*3 neighbor) of each pixel in the shrunk image Ishrunk (but not limited to Ishrunk, the input image or various smoothed or distorted image of the input image is also possible), std=√{square root over (E[I−E(I)]2)}
2.3 Image Fusion
3. Data Processing on Non-Feature Region
3.1 Local Gray-Scale Adjustment
I adjusted=Meanblock+(I in−Meanblock)*R adjust.
After the local gray-scale adjustment, the local gray-scale for the image will decrease, which may be interpreted as the gray-scale histogram in local regions is compressed (as shown in
3.2 Black Speckle Mitigation
After a local gray-scale adjustment, a process of black speckle detection and mitigation may be further applied, as shown in
As best shown in
Please note that, the above local gray level adjustment is not necessary for the mitigation of black speckle, said mitigation may be applied directly to the input image Iin without local gray scale adjustment, and the procedure is similar.
The above embodiments had been tested by a (but not limited herein) black/white digital B-mode ultrasonic system, which verifies that the image quality may be improved greatly by using the method of image enhancement and speckle mitigation of present invention.
While the above descriptions are made to some specific embodiments, it's to be noted that these embodiments are merely illustrative and preferred and that a person skilled in the art may make various changes and modifications to the embodiments. As can be seen from the above embodiments, the segmentation template is obtained through a template construction process based on gradient, gray-scale and variance, and template post-processing based on small structure removal, template modification and especially template frame-averaging, and thus the image is segmented into a feature region and a non-feature region based on the segmentation template, Wherein the template construction process is a basis for image enhancement, so a person skilled in the art can produce a segmentation template with existing technology in the prior arts based on the constructed template of present invention, including (or not including) template post-processing to modify the template. Compared with prior arts, the resulted ultrasound image is also enhanced correspondingly.
Furthermore, even in the above template construction process, the variance processing therein is not necessary, for example. Although variance processing may reflect the true structure information finely, it may be omitted and only gradient and gray-scale processing is used in case image quality is not expected to be very high, which may simplify computation and save cost.
Similarly, in the template post-processing according to present invention, not all of the 8-connectivity, template modification and template frame-averaging provided in the invention are necessary. For example, it is possible to apply the template frame-averaging to the variance template, which has been pointed out in the previous embodiments.
Moreover, in the embodiments according to present invention, the data processing on the feature regions is exemplary. For example, in the practice of present invention, it is also possible to only choose anisotropy smoothing based on the specific situation, to simplify computation and processing.
It is possible to make various combinations and deletions of the disclosed embodiments and therefore, the scope according to present invention is to be defined by the appended claims.
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|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Apr 1, 2010
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Sun Hawk-class gunship
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|First appearance
|Drazi Freehold
|General characteristics
|1 Sky serpent heavy fighter (back mounted)
|Auxiliary craft
|1 Heavy Plasma cannon
3 Particle Beam cannons
Pulse cannons
2 Heavy fusion missile launchers
|62 centimeter re-enforced armored hull, electromagnetic defenses
|Fusion engines
|Fusion reactor
|280 thousand metric tons
The Sun Hawk is a medium attack ship in the fictional universe of Babylon 5. This vessel is the primary warship used by the Drazi race, one of the main members of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds.
The Sun Hawk is the primary warship of the Drazi Freehold military. Like all Drazi vessels, this small defense ship has no independent jump capability. The Drazi's lack of jump engine technology is not due to any technological deficiency, but rather due to their proximity to the Centauri Republic. Prior to the Interstellar Alliance's war against the Centauri in 2262, the small Drazi Freehold's territorial expansion and economic growth was stifled by the larger power for many decades. In actuality, the Drazi have been a spacefaring race for far longer than humanity, and their technology is just as advanced, if not more so, than Earth Alliance and Narn technology. Through the skillful use of Jump Gates and their small but potent gunships, the Drazi have been able to defend their small network of colonies from invasion on many occasions. With the Centauri Republic in ruins after the joint Narn-Drazi attack against Centauri Prime, the Drazi are said to be developing their own new class of large, jump-capable destroyers.
The Drazi Sun Hawk is a rugged warship and is heavily armed for its size. Its most common use is for system patrol and convoy escort, although it can also be utilized, in larger numbers, as a ship of the line against enemy assault fleets. The Sun Hawk is known for its versatility and can be easily maintained and modified, due largely to its modular fusion reactor and simple plasma drive engines. The fact that it can be easily mass-produced and has low crew requirements has made it something of a major export product for the Drazi, as many of the other, less militarily-inclined League races often purchase these ships for use as escort craft, patrol ships and transports.
Designer Ron Thornton made the Sun Hawk as an improved version of the Liberator from Terry Nation's Blake's 7.
Known Sun Hawk gunships[edit]
- Stra'kaf: Participates in the battle at Coriana VI against the Vorlons and Shadows. Near the end of the battle it sacrifices itself protecting Sheridan's and Delenn's White Star from a missile from the Shadow planet killer.


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- Exploring NukeX
- Working with the new paint tools
- Using the Clone and Reveal tools
- Reviewing the Keylight matte controls
- Creating Keylight holdout and garbage mattes
- Performing multipass keying
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I am zooming the viewer back to get a little workspace, in order to show you a very important issue about correspondence points. When you draw a spline--let's go to source. I am going to turn my overlays back on. I'm going to draw a spline with just three control points. Click and drag, click and drag, click and drag, close. We'll switch to the destination side. I am going to select those points and just scale then down. Okay I've deselected, and now we'll look at both points and their correspondence points.
Let me turn the correspondence line. Even though I drew three control points, there are four correspondence lines. Okay, I am going to delete that and show you another case where I draw lot more control points. Let's go to source, select the Bezier, click and drag, click and drag, click and drag, close. Go to the destination side, select them, shrink it down, so I have a lot more control points now. Here is the punch line: no matter how many control points I draw, I still get four correspondence points.
So keep that in mind. You'll always get four correspondence points no matter how long this spline is. Okay, I am going to delete that, turn off the overlays, and re-home the viewer. Now I want to show you the importance of the correspondence points when you're doing your warp. Okay, move this up here. I'm going to pop out the old SplineWarp node with Shift+Command+X, bring in this one that I've already prepared that has some lines already drawn. Turn the overlay on so you can see my splines.
So we're interested in these splines right here just for the outside of the head, and I'm going to close the old SplineWarp node. What I wanted to show you is on frame 40, if we zoom in here--and I'm going to turn the overlay off so you don't see this splines-- you see how the source and destination shapes don't line up very well? Well, that's because there is only four correspondence points going all the way around the entire head. So here's how we fixed that. I'll turn the overlays back on, enable the correspondence points' visibility.
Here is my Correspondence tool. I'm going to select the Add Correspondence Point, click one here on this side-- it doesn't matter which spline you choose-- and I'll click one over here just to be different, okay. Now I'll turn the overlays off, and watch what happens. I'll undo one, undo the other, redo one, redo the other. So you can see how those correspondence points tuck the warps in so the edges line up beautifully. One other thing you're going to want to know about is linking tracker data to your control points. So let's turn our splines back on, select the tool, select spline, go to any control point, right mouse pop-up Link to > Tracker linking dialog, okay.
You have to have a Tracker node in here obviously or this is ghosted out. So this is how you can link any tracker to any control point in your morph. If you've got tracking data, like translate, rotate, and scale, you can hook that up here on the Transform tab. Or you can use the Transform tab to animate the position of yours splines if you've got a moving clip. I prepared a finished morph demo for you that you can load in. So over here on the Nuke File > Open, browse to your Project Media, select the morph demo nuke script, open that up.
Okay, I'm going to set the timeline to ping-pong and play this morph for you. So there you have it, a very nice-looking morph, just using the SplineWarp node in Nuke. Now you get to have this Nuke script. It's included in the Project Media. So you can open up this morph demo script and open up the SplineWarp node so that you can see all of the shapes that go into it, and you can play with it yourself and try to make our refinements and improvements to make it your own.
I'll close this and go back to the morph animation to say that morphing is a delicate art that takes a lot of practice and a lot of time, especially when you have to animate the morph to follow moving targets, but Nuke's SplineWarp node is an outstanding tool for morphing.


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The firing of Hendricks "was based on a substantiated Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) command investigation into an improper relationship and unprofessional behavior," according to the announcement. It also said that Hendricks' deputy, Philip Anderson, is stepping in on an interim basis and that Hendricks has been transferred to SPAWAR's Washington liaison office.
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Senior defender Dani Russell's goal in the 64th minute of action lifted the University of San Diego women's soccer team to a thrilling 1-0 victory over Loyola Marymount University Sunday afternoon in a West Coast Conference match at Sullivan Field.
With the win, the Toreros improve to 6-7-0 overall, remain perfect in WCC action at 2-0-0 and still have not trailed in a WCC contest for nine consecutive matches dating back to last season's championship run. With the loss, the Lions fall to 6-4-2 overall and 0-1-0 in the WCC.
Russell would tally her third goal of the season right when the Toreros needed it most. Sophomore defender Meghan O'Rourke took a free kick for the Toreros, and managed to ski the ball into a crowded goal box, where Russell got on the other end of it, and slipped the ball into the back of the net to give USD the victory.
LMU had their chances early on, as they earned a corner kick just 2:30 into the match. Emily Maletis and Darien Pyka both had early shots saved by Torero keeper McKenna Tollack and Whitney Sharpe had a blast from the right side of the box blocked by a USD defender, and despite all of this, the Torero defense proved to be an impenetrable force, as they pitched their third consecutive shutout.
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MONROE— The state Department of National Resources this week was given approval to buy 80 acres of forestland for $287,000 from private owners.
"We did not want to see it developed into housing," spokesman Bob Redling said.
The parcel was at high potential for development because of an existing road and utility access. Two houses could have been built on the land, Redling said.
By preventing development, the water supply from Lake Chaplain is better protected from possible contamination, Redling said.
The parcel is bordered on three sides by state trust land. The city of Everett also owns adjacent land.
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In recent years, the state agency has become more active in buying land to keep undeveloped. In 2009, it purchased 290 acres near Jim Creek from several owners. In 2008, almost 1,000 acres were bought form a timber company at Bear Creek. Both of these lands are in Arlington.
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The Department of Theater at Case Western Reserve University offers education and participation in all aspects of drama, with course offerings in acting, stagecraft, costume design, scene design, directing, dramatic writing, and history, literature, and criticism. Bachelor of Arts students have the opportunity to perform as well as to serve on the design and technical teams in four fully produced mainstage theatrical productions each year. The low student to faculty ratio ensures that students are able to work closely with our faculty of highly accomplished artists and scholars. As a discipline that is both performing art and humanity, the department treats all performances as artistic and educational experiences, and welcomes the participation of students regardless of their academic majors and career goals.
At the graduate level, the Master of Arts degree prepares students for work in professional theater, education, or for further pursuit of graduate study, while the Master of Fine Arts professional actor training program–a collaborative partnership between the Department of Theater and Cleveland Play House–represents a unique alliance between one of the oldest academic theater programs in the United States and the nation's first regional theater.
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WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko is willing to give David Haye the home advantage. Klitschko went to his opponent's backyard on Saturday night, as he traveled to Poland to knock out Tomasz Adamek in ten rounds. In July, Haye lost a one-sided twelve round decision to younger Wladimir. He promised to retire in October - but on Saturday the British fighter broke his silence and said he was willing to postpone his retirement in order to fight Vitali.
To make the fight happen, Vitali is willing to travel to England to give Haye the homefield advantage. The older Klitschko is very hungry to knock Haye out, which is something the younger Wladimir was unable to accomplish.
"David Haye is world famous, not from boxing skills but from his long tongue," he told Sky Sports. "He is the world's biggest trash-talker and that's why everybody knows him. He touched me and my brother personally and I want to knock him out. I'm serious. I want to knock David Haye out - I can do that.
"It would be a great to fight in Great Britain. I know I have great support in Britain and I want to thank everybody there for watching this fight. I know they like the Klitschko brothers and we have good support there. I would like to fight there again - at Wembley Stadium. That is another dream."
I'd like to see this happen. I can actually see a lot of British fans being hostile towards Haye if it happened over here. Haye's actions before, during and after the Wladimir fight did nothing to increase his popularity. On…Comment by Leohappy on 09-12-2011
If Haye wants to get smashed, this fight better happen in England. Because nobody in Germany is gonna pay a ticket to watch Haye again.Comment by chav on 09-12-2011
I hope to god this fight happens in Wembley. Vitali will always be remembered over here for his fight with Lennox and as his little brother just destroyed Haye i think it could be a fight that does Vitali's legacy…Comment by nycsmooth on 09-12-2011
doesn't matter where, it won't help him...if VK pushes it haye is gone by 6...Comment by SuperVillain on 09-11-2011
haye gets his sh[COLOR="Black"]i[/COLOR]t pushed in violently.Post a Comment - View More User Comments (25)


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Definition of underwear in English:
noun[mass noun]
Clothing worn under other clothes, typically next to the skin.
Example sentences
- I look at my clock, standing in my bra and underwear while ironing my shirt of choice.
- She stormed over to her bureau, pulling out clothes, throwing underwear at him.
- She sent photos of herself posing in her underwear, a bikini and a glamorous ballgown.
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I jus installed a WP copy in my server to manage a news webpage.
I also wanted to add some non-dinamic information to my website. I could manage almost the all contents with the Pages tool, but I couldn't use a script that I wrote in PHP to show the IP adress of the visitor. How can I do it? I tried a plugin to show PHP code in posts, but it doesn't help me.
I also wanted to organize my Pages in categories, but the option to put one inside another doesn't help me neither. What can I do?
Thank you very much and sorry for my English, but I'm still an English student from Spain.