Fuzzy rank LUM filters

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3636-3654

  Nie, Yao ^a,b   Barner, Kenneth E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Edge detection; Fuzzy ranks; Fuzzy transformation; Image sharpening; Impulsive noise removal; Lower upper middle (LUM) filters; Rank order; Spread information

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FUZZY RANKS; IMAGE SHARPENING; IMPULSIVE NOISE REMOVAL; LOWER-UPPER-MIDDLE (LUM) FILTERS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FUZZY LOGIC; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; FUZZY LOGIC; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33751410641     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2006.882026     Document Type: Article

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