Mammography images restoration by quantum noise reduction and inverse MTF filtering

Proceedings of SIBGRAPI 2009 - 22nd Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 180-185

  Romualdo, Larissa Cristina Dos Santos ^a   Vieira, Marcelo Andrade Da Costa ^a   Schiabel, Homero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anscombe transform; Image restoration; Mammography; Quantum noise

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION PROCESS; ANSCOMBE TRANSFORM; BREAST IMAGES; COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION; IMAGE RESTORATION; IMAGE SYSTEMS; INVERSE FILTERS; MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; MAMMOGRAPHIC PHANTOMS; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; PRE-PROCESSING; QUANTUM NOISE REDUCTION; REDUCING NOISE; RESTORATION METHODS; WIENER FILTERS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EXCITONS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; QUANTUM NOISE; RESTORATION;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77949616476     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SIBGRAPI.2009.12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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