Adaptive enhancement of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) images

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision

Volumn II, Issue , 2005, Pages 1739-1746

  Leung, Erich T H ^a   Tsotsos, John K ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ATTENUATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CARDIAC MAGNETIC RESONANCE (CMR) IMAGES; COHERENT STRUCTURES; IMAGE NOISE; SIGNAL INTENSITY;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 33745897334     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCV.2005.30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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