Comparative study of two image space noise reduction methods for computed tomography: Bilateral filter and nonlocal means

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3529-3532

  Ramirez Giraldo, Juan C ^a   Kelm, Zachary S ^a   Guimaraes, Luis S ^a   Yu, Lifeng ^a   Fletcher, Joel G ^a   Erickson, Bradley J ^a   McCollough, Cynthia H ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILATERAL FILTERS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA SETS; DENOISING METHODS; DETECTABILITY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOSE REDUCTION; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; HIGH CONTRAST; IMAGE DATASETS; IMAGE SPACE; LOW CONTRAST; NOISE REDUCTION METHODS; NOISE REDUCTIONS; NONLINEAR FILTER; NONLOCAL; OPTIMAL NOISE; QUALITY ASSURANCE TESTING; RADIATION DOSE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; BIOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; PROJECTION SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; X RAY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTERS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAYS;

EID: 77950969274     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334714     Document Type: Conference Paper

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