A directional multiscale approach for speckle reduction in optical coherence tomography images

2007 International Conference on Electrical Engineering, ICEE

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Forouzanfar, M ^a   Moghaddam, H A ^a  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; SPECKLE; TOMOGRAPHY; TRELLIS CODES;

HEAVY-TAILED DISTRIBUTIONS; SUB-BANDS; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

EID: 51749123396     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICEE.2007.4287329     Document Type: Conference Paper

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