An artefact-free, structure-saving noise reduction using the correlation between two images for threshold determination in the wavelet domain

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5747, Issue II, 2005, Pages 1066-1075

  Tischenko, Oleg ^a   Hoeschen, Christoph ^a   Buhr, Egbert ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Correlation; Noise reduction; Wavelet thresholding; X ray image

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATTENUATION; CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NOISE ABATEMENT; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; X RAYS;

CORRELATION; IMAGE DECOMPOSITION; WAVELET THRESHOLDING; X-RAY IMAGES;

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 23844555580     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.595863     Document Type: Conference Paper

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