A nonlinear multi-resolution gradient adaptive filter for medical images

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5032 II, Issue , 2003, Pages 732-742

  Kunz, Dietmar ^a   Eck, Kai ^b   Fillbrandt, Holger ^b   Aach, Til ^c  

^a Verkehr und Wasser Lehr und Forschungsgebiet Geotechnik und Tunnelbau   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Image enhancement; Intra frame processing; Multi resolution processing; Noise reduction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; X RAY ANALYSIS;

X-RAY FLUOROSCOPY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0041374022     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.481323     Document Type: Conference Paper

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