Noise Estimation and Reduction in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using a New Multispectral Nonlocal Maximum-likelihood Filter

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 181-193

  Bouhrara, Mustapha ^a   Bonny, Jean Marie ^b   Ashinsky, Beth G ^a   Maring, Michael C ^a   Spencer, Richard G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UR370 QuaPA   (France)

Author keywords

Brain; MRI; Multispectral filtering; Nonlocal maximum likelihood filter; Nonlocal means filter; Rician noise

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CLIMATE CHANGE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION FILTERING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NEUROIMAGING; NOISE ABATEMENT; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PASSIVE FILTERS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

METHOD OF MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MULTI-SPECTRAL; NON LOCAL MEANS (NLM); NON- LOCAL MEANS FILTERS; NONLOCAL; NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; RICIAN NOISE; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION;

IMAGE DENOISING;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL FILTERING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE FILTERING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOCAL MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD FILTER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MULTISPECTRAL NONLOCAL MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD FILTER; NEUROIMAGING; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NOISE REDUCTION; NOISE STANDARD; NONLOCAL MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD FILTER; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; YOUNG ADULT; BRAIN; NOISE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NOISE;

EID: 85013188753     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2016.2601243     Document Type: Article

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