Noise Reduction for Magnetic Resonance Images via Adaptive Multiscale Products Thresholding

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1089-1099

  Bao, Paul ^a   Zhang, Lei ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Denoising; Magnetic resonance image; Multiscale products; Thresholding; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MARKOV PROCESSES; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

MULTISCALE PRODUCTS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0141857195     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.816958     Document Type: Article

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