A multiscale sub-octave wavelet transform for de-noising and enhancement

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2825, Issue , 1996, Pages 238-249

  Laine, Andrew F ^a   Zong, Xuli ^a  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

contrast enhancement; de noising; nonlinear processing; Sub Octave wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DE-NOISING; FEATURE ENHANCEMENT; MULTISCALES; NOISE ENERGY; NOISE REDUCTIONS; NONLINEAR PROCESSING; SUB-OCTAVE WAVELET TRANSFORM; TRANSFORM COEFFICIENTS;

FREQUENCY BANDS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

EID: 78751635882     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.255235     Document Type: Conference Paper

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