A method for modeling noise in medical images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1221-1232

  Gravel, Pierre ^a   Beaudoin, Gilles ^b   De Guise, Jacques A ^a  

^a TELUQ University   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Image processing; Magnetic resonance imaging; Noise measurement; Robustness; X rays

Indexed keywords

DENOISING FUNCTIONS; IMAGE INTENSITY; NOISE MEASUREMENTS; TEXTURE ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STATISTICAL METHODS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 6344254597     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.832656     Document Type: Article

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