MRI noise estimation and denoising using non-local PCA

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 35-47

  Manjón, José V ^a   Coupé, Pierrick ^b   Buades, Antonio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Denoising; MRI; Non local means; PCA; Sparseness

Indexed keywords

IMAGE DENOISING;

DE-NOISING; LOCAL NOISE LEVELS; NON LOCAL MEANS; NON- LOCAL MEANS FILTERS; PCA; SELF SIMILARITY PROPERTIES; SPARSENESS; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ACCELERATION; ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; FILTRATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHITE NOISE; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84923260927     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2015.01.004     Document Type: Article

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