A review of wavelet denoising in MRI and ultrasound brain imaging

Current Medical Imaging Reviews

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 247-260

  Pižurica, Aleksandra ^a   Wink, Alle Meije ^b   Vansteenkiste, Ewout ^a   Philips, Wilfried ^a   Roerdink, Jos B T M ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

False discovery rate control; Image denoising; Magnetic resonance imaging; Statistical parametric mapping; Ultrasound; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

BRAIN TISSUE; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; FILTRATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEUROIMAGING; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 33745855505     PISSN: 15734056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157340506776930665     Document Type: Review

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