Bilateral filtering of diffusion tensor magnetic resonance images

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2463-2475

  Hamarneh, Ghassan ^a   Hradsky, Judith ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bilateral filtering; Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DTMRI); Interpolation; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; INTERPOLATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

BILATERAL FILTERING; DIFFUSION TENSOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; LOG-EUCLIDEAN FRAMEWORK;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34648820376     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2007.904964     Document Type: Article

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