On the estimation of the coefficient of variation for anisotropic diffusion speckle filtering

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2694-2701

  Aja Fernández, Santiago ^a   Alberola López, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; Coefficient of variation; Image restoration; Speckle filtering; Statistics estimation

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFUSION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICS;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; SPECKLE FILTERING; STATISTICS ESTIMATION;

SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33747645569     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2006.877360     Document Type: Article

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