Scale-based diffusive image filtering preserving boundary sharpness and fine structures

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1140-1155

  Saha, Punam K ^a,b   Udupa, Jayaram K ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Image filtering; MR imaging; Region homogeneity; Scale

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; FINE STRUCTURE; IMAGE FILTERING; OBJECT BOUNDARY; REGION HOMOGENEITY;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY; STANDARD; THEORETICAL MODEL; VASCULARIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; WEIGHTS AND MEASURES;

EID: 0035498040     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.963817     Document Type: Article

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