Interval type-II fuzzy anisotropic diffusion algorithm for speckle noise reduction in optical coherence tomography images

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 733-747

  Puvanathasan, Prabakar ^a   Bizheva, Kostadinka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EDGE DETECTION; FUZZY FILTERS; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; EDGE PRESERVATIONS; HUMAN FINGERS; INTERVAL TYPE-II FUZZY SETS; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SNR IMPROVEMENT; SPECKLE NOISE; SPECKLE NOISE REDUCTION;

IMAGE DENOISING;

EID: 58449111858     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.000733     Document Type: Article

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