1. A method for reducing speckle in an ultrasonic image formed from a digitized scan line including a plurality of linearly arranged signal intensity data points obtained from ultrasonic energy reflected by structures within a body, said method comprising the steps of: dividing the scan line into a plurality of intensity pixels, each of said intensity pixels including at least one data point of said plurality of signal intensity data points; determining a raw intensity level for each of said plurality of intensity pixels; determining a feature gain factor for each pixel of said plurality of intensity pixels; calculating a corrected intensity level for each of said plurality of intensity pixels by multiplying the raw intensity level for each intensity pixel by the feature gain factor for the corresponding intensity pixel; and displaying the corrected intensity level of each of said plurality of intensity pixels.