Denoising for 3-D photon-limited imaging data using nonseparable filterbanks

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2312-2323

  Santamaria Pang, Alberto ^a   Bildea, Teodor Stefan ^a   Tan, Shan ^a   Kakadiaris, Ioannis A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D image denoising; Molecular and cellular bioimaging; Nonseparable filterbanks

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHOTONS;

3-D IMAGE DENOISING; ADAPTIVE HYSTERESISES; ART METHODS; DENOISING; DENOISING ALGORITHMS; EDGE INFORMATIONS; FILTER-BANK; FILTERBANKS; IMAGING DATUMS; MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOIMAGING; NONSEPARABLE FILTERBANKS; OPTIMAL THRESHOLDS; SYNTHETIC AND REAL DATUMS; THRESHOLDING ALGORITHMS; TUBULAR NEIGHBORHOODS; VALIDATION METHODS; VALIDATION STRATEGIES; WAVELET SYSTEMS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHOTONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 57049119019     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2008.2003393     Document Type: Article

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