Noise-driven anisotropic diffusion filtering of MRI

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2265-2274

  Krissian, Karl ^a   Aja Fernández, Santiago ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; LMMSE filter; Magnetic resonance imaging; Rician distribution

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION FILTERING; CONVERGENCE RATES; FILTERING METHOD; IMAGE STRUCTURES; LINEAR COMPONENTS; LMMSE FILTER; LOCAL LINEAR; LOCAL STANDARD DEVIATION; LOCAL STRUCTURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES; MATRIX DIFFUSION; NUMERICAL SCHEME; PARTIAL DERIVATIVE EQUATIONS; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; REAL DATA SETS; RICIAN DISTRIBUTION; ROBUST ESTIMATION; SPECKLE REDUCING ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; STANDARD DEVIATION; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFUSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; STATISTICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70349604349     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2009.2025553     Document Type: Article

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