An adaptive anisotropie diffusion filter for noise reduction in MR images

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1299-1304

  Jinshan, Tang ^a   Qingling, Sun ^a   Jun, Liu ^b   Yongyan, Cao ^b  

^a ALCORN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptive; Anisotropic diffusion; Gradient map; MR images; Noise reduction

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NOISE ABATEMENT; ROBUST CONTROL; THRESHOLD LOGIC;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION FILTER; GRADIENT COMPUTATION METHOD;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 37049021533     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMA.2007.4303737     Document Type: Conference Paper

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