Increasing the effective resolution of thermal infrared images an algorithm based on mean-field annealing that also removes noise and preserves image edges

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 63-70

  Snyder, Wesley E ^a   Qi, Hairong ^a,b,c   Elliott, Robert L ^a,b,c,d   Head, Jonathan F ^a,b,c,d,e   Wang, Cliff X ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c ElliottMastology Center   (China)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; HORMONES; MAMMOGRAPHY; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; ONCOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN;

BIOPSY; BREAST; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; SKIN TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TUMOR;

INFRARED IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED RADIATION; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS; THERMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFRARED RAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033625628     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/51.844382     Document Type: Article

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