Denoising of 4D cardiac micro-CT data using median-centric bilateral filtration

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8314, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Clark, D ^a   Johnson, G A ^a   Badea, C T ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

4D; Bilateral filtration; Cardiac imaging; Denoising; In vivo; Micro CT; Small animal

Indexed keywords

4D; CARDIAC IMAGING; DE-NOISING; IN-VIVO; MICRO CT; SMALL ANIMAL;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMALS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION;

MEDIAN FILTERS;

EID: 84860730766     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.911478     Document Type: Conference Paper

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