Anisotropic curvature motion for structure enhancing smoothing of 3D MR angiography data

Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 217-229

  Nemitz, Oliver ^a   Rumpf, Martin ^a   Tasdizen, Tolga ^b   Whitaker, Ross ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic mean curvature motion; Denoising and reconstruction; Local classification

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MEAN CURVATURE MOTION; GEOMETRIC GRADIENT FLOWS; LOCAL CLASSIFICATIONS; ROBUST METHOD;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRADIENT METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBUST CONTROL;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 34247481849     PISSN: 09249907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10851-006-0645-2     Document Type: Article

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