A modified adaptive median filter method and its applications in medical images

Biomedical Engineering - Applications, Basis and Communications

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 489-496

  Pan, Mei Sen ^a,b   Tang, Jing Tian ^a   Yang, Xiao Li ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUNAN UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptive median filter; Median image; Noise granularity function; Salt and pepper noise

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MEDIAN FILTER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CURRENT NOISE; FILTER METHOD; GRAY VALUE; MEDIAN FILTER; MEDIAN IMAGE; MEDICAL IMAGES; NOISE GRANULARITY FUNCTION; PROCESSING TIME; SALT-AND-PEPPER NOISE; WINDOW SIZE;

ELECTRIC FILTERS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MEDICAL IMAGING; PIXELS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FILTER; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING; NOISE REDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 78650490196     PISSN: 10162372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4015/S1016237210002237     Document Type: Article

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