De-noising of low-dose CT images using space-time nonlocal means over large-scale neighborhoods

2011 IEEE/ICME International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering, CME 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 455-459

  Yu, Weimin ^a   Chen, Yang ^a   Luo, Limin ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

de noising; LDCT; NL means; parallel computing; temporal dimension

Indexed keywords

2-D SLICE; CLINICAL IMAGES; COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; DE-NOISING; DENOISING METHODS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; HIGH DOSE; LDCT; LOW-DOSE CT; NL-MEANS; NONLOCAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION-INDUCED; STREAK ARTIFACTS; TEMPORAL DIMENSIONS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH RISKS; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; RADIATION HAZARDS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79959936692     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCME.2011.5876783     Document Type: Conference Paper

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