An adaptive non local maximum likelihood estimation method for denoising magnetic resonance images

Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1136-1139

  Rajan, Jeny ^a   Van Audekerke, Johan ^a   Van Der Linden, Annemie ^a   Verhoye, Marleen ^a   Sijbers, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

MRI; NLML; Noise; Rician distribution

Indexed keywords

DE-NOISING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES; ML ESTIMATION; MR IMAGES; NLML; NOISE; NONLOCAL; OPTIMAL RESULTS; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; RICIAN DISTRIBUTION; SAMPLE SIZES;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT;

IMAGE DENOISING;

EID: 84864862824     PISSN: 19457928     EISSN: 19458452     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2012.6235760     Document Type: Conference Paper

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