Blind local noise estimation for medical images reconstructed from rapid acquisition

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8314, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Pan, Xunyu ^a   Zhang, Xing ^a   Lyu, Siwei ^a  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Image denoising; Local noise estimation; Medical imaging; Parallel acquisition

Indexed keywords

BAND PASS; CLINICAL PRACTICES; CT IMAGE; DE-NOISING; ESTIMATION PERFORMANCE; FAN BEAMS; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; IMAGING DEVICE; MEDICAL IMAGES; MR IMAGES; MULTIPLE SCANNING; NOISE ESTIMATION; NOISE ESTIMATION ALGORITHM; NOISE LEVEL ESTIMATION; NOISE LEVELS; NOISE MAP; NONUNIFORM NOISE; PARALLEL ACQUISITION; PIXEL DOMAIN; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; RAPID ACQUISITION; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SENSITIVITY ENCODING; SENSITIVITY PROFILES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ESTIMATION; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE DENOISING; IMAGE QUALITY; NOISE POLLUTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84860778349     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.910857     Document Type: Conference Paper

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