Piecewise structural diffusion defined on shape index for noise reduction in dual-energy CT images

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7601 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 88-96

  Cai, Wenli ^a   Lee, June Goo ^a,b   Zhang, Da ^a   Piel, Christina ^a,c   Yoshida, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of Applied Sciences in Giessen   (Germany)

Author keywords

dual energy CT; dual energy CT colonography; Noise reduction

Indexed keywords

DENOISING METHODS; DIFFUSION TENSOR; DOUBLE EXPOSURE; DUAL-ENERGY CT; EIGENVALUES; HESSIAN MATRICES; IMAGE SPACE; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; LOW DOSE; LOW ENERGIES; PHANTOM STUDIES; PIECE-WISE; SHAPE INDICES; SIMILAR IMAGE; SINGLE DIFFUSION; STRUCTURAL DIFFUSION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION; DOSIMETRY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; NOISE ABATEMENT; TENSORS;

IMAGE DENOISING;

EID: 84868251026     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33612-6_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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