Wavelet denoising during optical coherence tomography of the prostate nerves using the complex wavelet transform

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3016-3019

  Chitchian, Shahab ^a   Fiddy, Michael ^a   Fried, Nathaniel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; DISEASES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SURGERY; TOMOGRAPHY; UROLOGY;

COMPLEX WAVELET TRANSFORMS; DUAL-TREE WAVELET TRANSFORM; IMAGE QUALITY METRICS; PROSTATE CANCERS; SEXUAL FUNCTIONS; SPECKLE NOISE REDUCTION; WAVELET DENOISING; WAVELET SHRINKAGE;

IMAGE DENOISING;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE; PROSTATECTOMY; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATECTOMY; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 61849147472     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649838     Document Type: Conference Paper

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