Image enhancement and denoising by complex diffusion processes

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1020-1036

  Gilboa, Guy ^a   Sochen, Nir ^b   Zeevi, Yehoshua Y ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER VISION; DIGITAL FILTERS; EDGE DETECTION; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WHITE NOISE;

ADDITIVE WHITE GAUSSIAN NOISE; COMPLEX DIFFUSION PROCESSES; IMAGE DENOISING; IMAGE FILTERING; NONLINEAR DIFFUSION EQUATION; SCHRODINGER EQUATION; SHOCK FILTERS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIFFUSION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIFFUSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 3242723371     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2004.47     Document Type: Article

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