Median non-local means filtering for low SNR image denoising: Application to PET with anatomical knowledge

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3613-3618

  Chan, Chung ^a,b   Fulton, Roger ^a   Feng, David Dagan ^b   Meikle, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT CHANGE; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CT IMAGE; DE-NOISING; DIFFUSION FILTERING; GAUSSIAN FILTERING; IMAGE DE-NOISING; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; INTENSITY GRADIENTS; LOW SNR; LUNG LESIONS; MEDIAN FILTERING; MULTI-MODALITY; NONLOCAL; PET IMAGES; PHANTOM STUDIES; ROBUST ESTIMATION; SIDE INFORMATION; VISUAL ASSESSMENTS; WEIGHT CALCULATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NOISE POLLUTION CONTROL; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 79960318319     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5874485     Document Type: Conference Paper

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