A non-local Rician noise reduction approach for 3-D magnitude Magnetic Resonance Images

2011 7th Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing, MVIP 2011 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Golshan, Hosein M ^a   Hasanzadeh, Reza P R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUILAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Denoising; Linear minimum mean square error; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Rician distribution

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION PROCESS; CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; COMPUTERIZED ANALYSIS; DE-NOISING; IMAGE CONTRASTS; LINEAR MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES; NONLOCAL; RICIAN DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL ESTIMATION; STRUCTURAL DETAILS; VISUAL QUALITIES;

COMPUTER VISION; DIAGNOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NOISE POLLUTION CONTROL; RESONANCE; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84855918282     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IranianMVIP.2011.6121559     Document Type: Conference Paper

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