OCT skin image enhancement through attenuation compensation

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 4927-4935

  Hojjatoleslami, Ali ^a   Avanaki, Mohammad R N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DERMATOLOGY; MEDIAN FILTERS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE;

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; ATTENUATION COMPENSATION; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DETECTION ALGORITHM; ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHMS; LIGHT ATTENUATION; SPECKLE REDUCTION; WEIGHTED MEDIAN FILTER;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DERMIS; EPIDERMIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SKIN; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; DERMIS; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SKIN; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84864215205     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.004927     Document Type: Article

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