A Multidimensional Nonlinear Edge-Preserving Filter for Magnetic Resonance Image Restoration

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 147-161

  Soltanian Zadeh, Hamid ^a   Yagle, Andrew E ^a   Windham, Joe P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC FILTERS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; VECTORS; WHITE NOISE;

EIGENIMAGE FILTER; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE DISCRIMINATOR; GAUSSIAN KERNEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MEDIAN FILTERING; MULTIDIMENSIONAL NONLINEAR EDGE PRESERVING FILTER; SPATIAL SMOOTHING; SPIN ECHO IMAGES; VECTOR MEDIAN;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0029253397     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: 19410042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.342189     Document Type: Article

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