Three dimensional data-driven multi scale atomic representation of optical coherence tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1042-1062

  Kafieh, Raheleh ^a   Rabbani, Hossein ^a   Selesnick, Ivan ^b  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Denoising; dictionary learning; diffusion wavelet; optical coherence tomography; segmentation; three dimensional (3D) complex wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

COMBINED ALGORITHMS; COMPLEX WAVELET TRANSFORMS; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DE-NOISING; DICTIONARY LEARNING; DUAL-TREE COMPLEX WAVELETS; FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; HUMAN; LEARNING; NOISE REDUCTION; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY DEVICE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA IMAGE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WAVELET ANALYSIS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RETINA; RETINA DISEASE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RETINA; RETINAL DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84929458566     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2014.2374354     Document Type: Article

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