Denoising and 4D visualization of OCT images

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 12313-12333

  Gargesha, Madhusudhana ^a   Jenkins, Michael W ^a   Rollins, Andrew M ^a   Wilson, David L ^a  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NOISE ABATEMENT; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY CONTROL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUALIZATION;

DISTANCE MEASURE; ENDOCARDIAL SURFACES; IMAGE QUALITY FIGURES; IMAGE STRUCTURES; NOISE REDUCTION ALGORITHMS; ORTHOGONAL WAVELETS; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT;

IMAGE DENOISING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 49149123392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.012313     Document Type: Article

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