Iterative truncated arithmetic mean filter and its properties

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1537-1547

  Jiang, Xudong ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Edge preservation; image noise attenuation; median approximation; median filter; nonlinear filter

Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC MEAN; DATA SETS; DYNAMIC THRESHOLD; EDGE PRESERVATIONS; EXTREME VALUE; FILTER OUTPUT; FUNDAMENTAL OPERATIONS; IMAGE NOISE; IMAGE STRUCTURES; INPUT SAMPLE; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; MEDIAN APPROXIMATION; NOISE ATTENUATION; NONLINEAR FILTER; REAL IMAGES; SIGNAL AND IMAGE PROCESSING; STOPPING CRITERIA; SYNTHETIC DATA; TRUNCATED MEAN; UPPER BOUND;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING;

MEDIAN FILTERS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 84859033584     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2011.2172805     Document Type: Article

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