Speckle reduction and lesion segmentation of OCT tooth images for early caries detection

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 1449-1452

  Li, Jialin ^a   Bowman, Christopher ^b   Fazel Rezai, Reza ^b,c   Hewko, Mark ^b   Choo Smith, Lin P'ing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c University of North Dakota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE;

BACKGROUND NOISE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENTS; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; FILTERING ALGORITHM; LESION SEGMENTATIONS; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; SEGMENTATION ANALYSIS; SPECKLE REDUCTION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 77951020050     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332916     Document Type: Conference Paper

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