An adaptive nonlinear diffusion algorithm for filtering medical images

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 298-305

  Jin, Jesse S ^a   Wang, Yung ^a   Hiller, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive filtering; Anisotropic filter; Diffusion; Nonlinear filtering; Regression

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE QUALITY; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR FILTERING; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ADAPTIVE NONLINEAR DIFFUSION ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPIC FILTER; CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM; FILTERING MEDICAL IMAGES; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; INTENSITY DISTORTION; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0034351688     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4233.897062     Document Type: Article

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