Adaptive two-pass rank order filter to remove impulse noise in highly corrupted images

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 238-247

  Xu, Xiaoyin ^a   Miller, Eric L ^a   Chen, Dongbin ^b   Sarhadi, Mansoor ^b  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Center weighted median filter (CWMF); Error index matrix; Impulse noise; Lower upper middle (LUM) filter; Median filter; SD ROM filter; Spatial distribution of impulse noise

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMPULSE NOISE;

CENTER WEIGHTED MEDIAN FILTER; CORRUPTED IMAGES; ERROR INDEX MATRIX; LOWER UPPER MIDDLE FILTER;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; FEEDBACK; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 1942517947     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2004.823827     Document Type: Article

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