How much image noise can be added in cardiac x-ray imaging without loss in perceived image quality?

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Gislason Lee, Amber J ^a   Kumcu, Asli ^b   Kengyelics, Stephen M ^a   Brettle, David S ^c   Treadgold, Laura A ^a   Sivananthan, Mohan ^c   Davies, Andrew G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

angiography; cardiac x ray imaging; image processing; radiation dose; simulated image noise; subjective image assessment

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER VISION; DOSIMETRY; HEART; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PIXELS; QUANTUM NOISE; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ALTERNATIVE FORCED CHOICE; CARDIAC PATIENTS; COMPUTER GENERATED; CORONARY ARTERIES; IMAGE ASSESSMENT; SIMULATED IMAGES; SUBJECTIVE IMAGE QUALITY; XRAY IMAGING;

IMAGE DENOISING;

EID: 84947293290     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JEI.24.5.051006     Document Type: Article

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