High-performance 3D median filter architecture for medical image despeckling

Electronics Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 1379-1380

  Jiang, M ^a   Crookes, D ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

BUBBLE SORTING ALGORITHM; FILTERING ALGORITHM; IMAGE DESPECKLING; MEDIAN FILTERING PROCESSOR;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 33751551190     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20062357     Document Type: Article

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