Nonlinear smoothing of MR images using approximate entropy — A local measure of signal intensity irregularity

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1613, Issue , 1999, Pages 484-489

  Parker, Geoffrey J M ^a   Schnabel, Julia A ^b,c   Barker, Gareth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE TEXTURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDIAN FILTERS; TEXTURES;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; APPROXIMATE ENTROPY; COMPUTABLE MEASURES; IMAGE FEATURES; IMAGE INFORMATION; NON-LINEAR SMOOTHING; SIGNAL INTENSITIES; SPATIAL SIGNALS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84856241231     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48714-x_50     Document Type: Conference Paper

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