MRI denoising using Non-Local Means

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 514-523

  Manjón, José V ^a   Carbonell Caballero, José ^a   Lull, Juan J ^a   García Martí, Gracián ^a   Martí Bonmatí, Luís ^b   Robles, Montserrat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DR PESET   (Spain)

Author keywords

Denoising; MRI filtering; Random noise

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETISM; RESONANCE;

DE-NOISING; ELSEVIER (CO); IMAGE DE-NOISING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE (MR); MR IMAGING; NOISE LEVELS; OPTIMAL PARAMETER SELECTION; OPTIMUM PARAMETERS; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENTS; RANDOM NOISES; REAL IMAGES; SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS;

WAVE FILTERS;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; NEUROIMAGING; NOISE REDUCTION; NOISE STANDARD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINE;

EID: 46749097582     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2008.02.004     Document Type: Article

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