Denoising Magnetic Resonance images using fourth order complex diffusion

IMVIP 2009 - 2009 International Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 123-127

  Rajan, Jeny ^a   Jeurissen, Ben ^a   Sijbers, Jan ^a   Kannan, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b NeST (P) Ltd   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DE-NOISING; FOURTH ORDER; IMAGE DE-NOISING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES; NEW OPTIONS; NON-LINEAR; NUMERICAL SCHEME;

AIRCRAFT ENGINES; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 72849138219     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IMVIP.2009.29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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