Improved adaptive complex diffusion despeckling filter

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 24048-24059

  Bernardes, Rui ^a,b   Maduro, Cristina ^a   Serranho, Pedro ^b   Araújo, Adérito ^c   Barbeiro, Sílvia ^c   Cunha Vaz, José ^a,b  

^a ASSOCIATION FOR INNOVATION AND BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ON LIGHT AND IMAGE AIBILI   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION SPEED; DE-SPECKLING; DIFFUSION FILTER; HUMAN RETINA; OPTICAL COHERENCES; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; RETINAL LAYERS; SYNTHETIC DATA;

OPHTHALMOLOGY;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; EYE FUNDUS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; TIME;

DIFFUSION; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 78149425198     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.024048     Document Type: Article

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