Noise removal with Gauss curvature-driven diffusion

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 904-909

  Lee, Suk Ho ^a   Seo, Jin Keun ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Gauss curvature; Noise removal; Nonlinear partial differential equation (PDE)

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

GAUSS CURVATURE; NOISE REMOVAL; NONLINEAR DENOISING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 21244479794     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2005.849294     Document Type: Article

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