Reduction of noise and image artifacts in computed tomography by nonlinear filtration of the projection images

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4322, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 917-923

  Demirkaya, O ^a  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; Computer tomography; Image artifacts; Noise reduction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTONS;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION FILTERS; STATISTICAL NOISE REDUCTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034839479     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.430964     Document Type: Conference Paper

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