Noise removal using fourth-order partial differential equation with applications to medical magnetic resonance images in space and time

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1579-1589

  Lysaker, Marius ^a   Lundervold, Arvid ^a   Tai, Xue Cheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Fourth order partial differential equations; MRI; Noise removal; Nonlinear filtering and enhancement; Restoration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE CODING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FOURTH-ORDER PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ITERATED CONDITIONS MODES (ICM); NOISE REMOVAL; NONLINEAR FILTERING AND ENHANCEMENT;

NOISE ABATEMENT;

EID: 4544278119     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2003.819229     Document Type: Article

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