Denoising 3D MR images by the enhanced non-local means filter for Rician noise

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1485-1496

  Liu, Hong ^a,b   Yang, Cihui ^a,b   Pan, Ning ^a,b   Song, Enmin ^a,b   Green, Richard ^c  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

3D image denoising; Filter; Magnetic resonance imaging; Non local means

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILTER; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NEUROIMAGING; NOISE REDUCTION; NON LOCAL MEANS FILTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RICIAN NON LOCAL MEANS FILTER; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; UNBIASED NON LOCAL MEANS FILTER;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78449237282     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.06.023     Document Type: Article

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