Platelets: A multiscale approach for recovering edges and surfaces in photon-limited medical imaging

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 332-350

  Willett, Rebecca M ^a   Nowak, Robert D ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Denoising; Multiresolution; Tomography; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PHOTONS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DENOISING; MULTIRESOLUTION; PHOTON-LIMITED MEDICAL IMAGING; PIECEWISE LINEAR IMAGE APPROXIMATION; PLATELETS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0038321621     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.809622     Document Type: Article

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