Image denoising based on multiscale singularity detection for cone beam CT breast imaging

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 696-703

  Zhong, Junmei ^a   Ning, Ruola ^a   Conover, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone beam CT breast imaging; Image denoising; Multiscale singularity detection; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; PATIENT TREATMENT; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; X RAYS;

CONE BEAM CT BREAST IMAGING; IMAGE DENOISING; MULTISCALE SINGULARITY DETECTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST DISEASE; BREAST TUMOR; CALCINOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 2942517963     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.826944     Document Type: Article

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