Denoising Functional MR Images: A Comparison of Wavelet Denoising and Gaussian Smoothing

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 374-387

  Wink, Alle Meije ^a   Roerdink, Jos B T M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

False discovery rate control; Functional neuro imaging; Gaussian smoothing; Statistical parametric mapping; Wavelet based denoising

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LOW PASS FILTERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

FALSE DISCOVERY RATE CONTROL; FUNCTIONAL NEURO-IMAGING; GAUSSIAN SMOOTHING; STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC MAPPING; WAVELET-BASED DENOISING;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 1642357547     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.824234     Document Type: Article

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