Edge-preserving filtering of images with low photon counts

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1014-1027

  Lee, John A ^a   Geets, Xavier ^a   Grégoire, Vincent ^a   Bol, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; Bilateral filtering; Edge preserving filter; Local M smoothers; Photometry invariance; Poissonian noise

Indexed keywords

MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PHOTOMETRY; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; BILATERAL FILTERING; EDGE-PRESERVING FILTERING; IMAGES FILTERING; LOW PHOTON COUNTS; PHOTOMETRY INVARIANCE; POISSONIAN NOISE;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHOTONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 43249109078     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.16     Document Type: Article

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