Speckle noise reduction algorithm for optical coherence tomography based on interval type II fuzzy set

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 15747-15758

  Puvanathasan, Prabakar ^a   Bizheva, Kostadinka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FUZZY SETS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE;

IMAGE METRICS; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 36749047381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.015747     Document Type: Article

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