Affine invariant non-linear anisotropic diffusion smoothing strategy for vector-valued images

Imaging Science Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 119-124

  Zhang, X F ^a,b   Chen, W F ^a   Qian, L ^a   Ye, H ^a  

^a SHANGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Affine invariant gradient; Affine invariant non linear anisotropic diffusion; Diffusion tensor imaging; Euclidean invariant gradient; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952998566     PISSN: 13682199     EISSN: 1743131X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/174313109X442524     Document Type: Article

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