Improving abdomen tumor low-dose CT images using a fast dictionary learning based processing

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 5803-5820

  Chen, Yang ^a,b,c   Yin, Xindao ^d   Shi, Luyao ^a,b   Shu, Huazhong ^a,b   Luo, Limin ^a,b   Coatrieux, Jean Louis ^a,b,c   Toumoulin, Christine ^b,c  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Centre de Recherche en Information Biomedicale Sino Francais LIA CRIBs   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^d NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER PATIENTS; CLINICAL DATA; DICTIONARY LEARNING; EFFECTIVE SUPPRESSION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPARSE REPRESENTATION; STREAK ARTIFACTS; X RAY RADIATION;

TUMORS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL TUMOR; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; TIME;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; AGED; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84881458652     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/16/5803     Document Type: Article

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