Reducing noises and artifacts simultaneously of low-dosed X-ray computed tomography using bilateral filter weighted by Gaussian filtered sinogram

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hu, Shaoxiang ^a   Liao, Zhiwu ^b   Chen, Wufan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b SICHUAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILATERAL FILTERS; DE-NOISING; GAUSSIANS; NONSTATIONARY; REDUCING NOISE; RESTORATION METHODS; SIMILARITY MEASUREMENTS; SIMPLE METHOD; SINOGRAMS; VISUAL QUALITIES; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

SCANNING;

RESTORATION;

EID: 84863709165     PISSN: 1024123X     EISSN: 15635147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/138581     Document Type: Article

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