A switching median filter with boundary discriminative noise detection for extremely corrupted images

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1506-1516

  Ng, Pei Eng ^a,b   Ma, Kai Kuang ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b HealthSTATS International Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Image denoising; Impulse noise detection; Nonlinear filter; Switching median filter

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMPULSE NOISE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

BOUNDARY DISCRIMINATIVE NOISE DETECTION (BDND); IMAGE DENOISING; IMPULSE NOISE DETECTION; NONLINEAR FILTER; SWITCHING MEDIAN FILTER;

IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33646861930     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2005.871129     Document Type: Article

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