Hello kt lee:
Thank you very much for getting in touch with us! I just thought I'd jump in here and provide a quick tip. I'm not totally sure which image refers to which figure but I can say that all the speckles on the images are referred to as Salt & Pepper noise and you can effectively remove that using a Median filter.
For more information, see the following links:
Median and Nth Order Filtering
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/2844
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_filter#Edge_preservation_properties
Sincerely,
Greg S.