Smoothing low-SNR molecular images via anisotropic median-diffusion

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 377-384

  Ling, Jian ^a,b   Bovik, Alan C ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; Image enhancement; Molecular imaging; Nonlinear filter

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR IMAGING;

ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; NONLINEAR FILTERING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

PACLITAXEL;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANISOTROPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PACLITAXEL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0036525891     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2002.1000261     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Scale-space and edge detection using anisotropic diffusion
2. Edge enhancement of infrared imagery by way of the anisotropic diffusion pyramid
3. Detection of MRI brain contour using nonlinear anisotropic diffusion filter
4. A new edge detector integrating scale-spectrum information
5. Anisotropic diffusion pyramids for image segmentation
6. Segmentation of natural images using anisotropic diffusion and linking of boundary edges
7. Fourth-order partial differential equations for noise removal
8. An anisotropic diffusion PDE for noise reduction and thin edge preservation
9. Improvement of 3D visualization of the brain using anisotropic diffusion smoothing of MR data
10. A new adaptive nonlinear anisotropic diffusion for noise smoothing
11. Image denoising and segmentation via nonlinear diffusion
12. CCD noise filtering based on 3-dimensional nonlinear partial differential equation
13. Image recovery using the anisotropic diffusion equation
14. Nonlinear anisotropic filtering of MRI data
15. A comparison of image restoration approaches applied to three-dimensional confocal and wide-field fluorescence microscopy
16. Modeling and restoration of Raman microscopic images
17. Diffusion-based edge detectors
18. A universal image quality index
19. A variational method in image recovery
20. The Perona-Malik paradox
21. Behavioral analysis of anisotropic diffusion in image processing
22. Robust anisotropic diffusion
23. A computational approach to edge detection
24. Application of Raman imaging microscopy to evaluate drug distribution within cancer cells