Denoising during optical coherence tomography of the prostate nerves via wavelet shrinkage using dual-tree complex wavelet transform

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

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

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

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

optical coherence tomography; prostate nerves; wavelet denoising

Indexed keywords

DE-NOISING; DE-NOISING ALGORITHM; DUAL-TREE COMPLEX WAVELET TRANSFORM; HIGHER DIMENSIONS; IMAGE QUALITY METRICS; PROSTATE GLANDS; PROSTATE NERVES; SHIFT INVARIANT; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SPECKLE NOISE; SPECKLE NOISE REDUCTION; TIME DOMAIN; WAVELET DENOISING; WAVELET SHRINKAGE;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; IMAGE QUALITY; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; TOMOGRAPHY;

NOISE POLLUTION CONTROL;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INNERVATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PROSTATE; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PROSTATE; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 65349153741     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3081543     Document Type: Article

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