Improving low-dose X-ray CT images by weighted intensity averaging over large-scale neighborhoods

2010 International Conference on Medical Image Analysis and Clinical Application, MIACA 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-4

  Li, Yingsheng ^a,b   Chen, Yang ^a,b   Chen, Wufan ^a   Luo, Limin ^a   Yin, Xindao ^c  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CT IMAGE; EFFECTIVE SUPPRESSION; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; LOW DOSE; LOW-DOSE CT; LOW-DOSE X-RAY CT; PIXEL INTENSITIES; RADIATION DOSE; SIEMENS;

DOSIMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PIXELS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77956075039     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MIACA.2010.5528271     Document Type: Conference Paper

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