Three-Dimensional Edge-Preserving Image Enhancement for Computed Tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1275-1287

  Villain, Nicolas ^a,b   Goussard, Yves ^a   Idier, Jérôme ^c,d   Allain, Marc ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^c UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^d ECOLE CENTRALE DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Edge preserving convex potentials; Half quadratic criteria; Markov random fields; Three dimensional image reconstruction; Three dimensional image restoration; X ray tomography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MARKOV PROCESSES;

X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMUR; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; FEMUR; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0141954912     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.817767     Document Type: Article

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