Noise-enhanced information systems

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 102, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1607-1621

  Chen, Hao ^a   Varshney, Lav R ^b   Varshney, Pramod K ^c  

^a Boise State University   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c Syracuse University   (United States)

Author keywords

Noise enhanced signal processing; Stochastic facilitation (SF); Stochastic resonance (SR)

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATIVE PROCESSING; BIOINFORMATICS; IMAGE DENOISING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING FRAMEWORKS; INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY OF ERRORS; STOCHASTIC FACILITATION (SF); STOCHASTIC RESONANCES;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 84907451718     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2014.2341554     Document Type: Article

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