Nonlocal transform-domain denoising of volumetric data with groupwise adaptive variance estimation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8296, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Maggioni, Matteo ^a   Foi, Alessandro ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

adaptive transforms; magnetic resonance imaging; non uniform noise; nonlocal methods; variance estimation; Volumetric data denoising

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE TRANSFORM; NON-UNIFORM NOISE; NONLOCAL; VARIANCE ESTIMATION; VOLUMETRIC DATA;

GEOMETRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84857944639     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.912109     Document Type: Conference Paper

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