Multiscale noise reduction on low-dose CT sinogram by stationary wavelet transform

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5339-5344

  Chun, Jiao ^a   Dongming, Wang ^b   Hongbing, Lu ^a   Zhu, Zhang ^a   Jerome, Z Liang ^c  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC FUNCTIONS; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; DEGRADED IMAGES; DENOISING METHODS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EDGE PRESERVATIONS; GAUSSIAN NOISE; GIBBS RINGING EFFECT; HIGH NOISE; LOCAL VARIANCE; LOCAL-ADAPTIVE; LOW DOSE; LOW-DOSE CT; MULTI-SCALE APPROACHES; MULTISCALE; NOISE PROPERTIES; NOISE REDUCTIONS; NONSTATIONARY; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SINOGRAM; SINOGRAMS; SMOOTHING FILTERS; STATIONARY WAVELET TRANSFORMS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THRESHOLDING; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS; WAVELET DOMAIN;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; TOMOGRAPHY;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

EID: 67649239405     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774439     Document Type: Conference Paper

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