Noise reduction in computed tomography scans using 3-D anisotropic hybrid diffusion with continuous switch

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1585-1594

  Mendrik, Adriënne M ^a   Vonken, Evert Jan ^b   Rutten, Annemarieke ^b   Viergever, Max A ^a   Van Ginneken, Bram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; Coherence enhancing diffusion (CED); Computed tomography (CT); Edge enhancing diffusion (EED); Filter; Noise reduction

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; COHERENCE-ENHANCING DIFFUSION (CED); COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT); EDGE-ENHANCING DIFFUSION (EED); FILTER; NOISE REDUCTION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION; EXPLOSIVE ACTUATED DEVICES; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; TUBULAR STEEL STRUCTURES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG; MEDIASTINUM; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; MEDIASTINUM; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70349860087     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2022368     Document Type: Article

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